Chevron’s bid a welcome sign? COVID slows mining in NANA region

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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

“Pebble Meets the Mark!” That’s what neighbors do. Dinosaurs on North Slope?

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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

AG says no to pipeline bans. After twenty years: drilling at Seventymile!

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News of the Day:   National Hot Dog Day 2020: How the hot dog became an American icon  How many hot dogs can a human possibly eat? Science finally has an answer                       OIL Texas oil regulator accuses Saudi Arabia and Russia of dumping crude on U.S. marketsWorld Oil, July 21, 2020 The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) this week … read more