OIL Groups divided over Alaska oil tax ballot measureJoe Vigil, KTVA, July 27, 2020 Scott Jepsen, vice president of External Affairs and Transportation for ConocoPhillips Alaska, recently discussed investment plans on the North Slope during a media briefing.  “When you take a look at the plans that have been talked about for Prudhoe, Kaparuk and Alpine, there’s about $10 billion … read more

OIL How Big Oil’s M&A targets have changedSimon Flowers, Wood Mackenzie, July 24, 2020 No one has experienced an M&A market as bad as this. The collapse in oil and gas prices and Covid-19 killed deal activity, with 2020 so far recording the smallest number of deals in any month, any quarter and any half-year. There was no transaction in … read more

News of the Day:    Northern Dynasty gets US nod for Alaska mine plan                                    Cecilia Jamasmie,  Mining.Com, July 24, 2020 Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM) has cleared the last environmental hurdle for its proposed Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum mine in Alaska, almost two decades after developers first started considering the project.  The US Army Corps of Engineers issued on Friday a final … read more