SPARTAN 151 RIG, COOK INLET — Deep below the ocean floor outside Anchorage this spring, a huge drill bit chewed through multi-million-year-old sandstone, sending crushed bits of rock back to the ...

Alaska North Slope production averaged 471,651 barrels per day in November, the most recent month for which the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission reports data by well and field. That was a ...

Oil and gas platforms in Cook Inlet in 2021, as seen from a floatplane. The Trump administration has announced plans to hold six oil and gas lease sales in Cook Inlet over the next six years, starting ...

Hilcorp has bought out one of the last small independent natural gas operators in the Cook Inlet basin outside of Anchorage — furthering consolidation among the companies that supply urban Alaska with ...

The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources ...

Federal officials reaffirmed the results of a past oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, setting the stage for further drilling that environmental groups have fought over worries about whales ...

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators announced Friday they are opening a "new chapter in oil and gas development" in the U.S. with lease sales slated for substantial areas in the Gulf of America and Alaska ...

Aug. 19 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of the Interior on Tuesday unveiled its long-term schedule for new Alaskan and Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas leases that are part of President Donald Trump's ...