Trump’s ANWR push: Will it really yield much oil? Heather Richards, E&E News, August 12, 2019 ANWR’s coastal plain also lies in a straight line between successful discoveries in Alaska and successful discoveries in Canada. In the mid-1980s, a group of companies paid for two-dimensional seismic data to map the region’s subsurface potential, revealing a complex spectrum of possible hydrocarbon locations, said … read more

Anchorage state Sen. Chris Birch dead after apparent heart attack Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, August 8, 2019Chris Birch, a longtime Anchorage Assembly member who shifted to the Legislature in 2016, died suddenly Wednesday of an apparent heart attack, according to several colleagues. Birch, a Republican, was in his first term as a state senator and served as chair of … read more

Hilcorp clears some regulatory hurdles to conduct a seismic survey in lower Cook Inlet Renee Gross, KBBI, August 6, 2019 The Texas energy company had originally hoped to conduct the roughly 45-to-60 day survey earlier this year. However, due to concerns about the effect of the survey during the fishing season as well as permitting delays, its plans were pushed … read more