U.S./Canada
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December 23, 2016
Energy firms including Imperial Oil and BP will get a year of consultations to hash out the fate of their rights in Canada’s Arctic after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s drilling freeze set the stage for a dispute over license extensions.
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December 19, 2016
President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in much of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to two people familiar with the decision.
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October 26, 2016
Obama Administration officials and former leaders of U.S. Armed Forces expressed support for Arctic oil and gas development at an Atlantic Council event on Geopolitics, Security, and Energy in the Arctic, sponsored by the Arctic Energy Center, yesterday afternoon.
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July 2016
It isn’t just about oil
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July 08, 2016
Energy companies that hunt for crude in icy Arctic waters will have to stash extra equipment nearby and take other potentially costly steps meant to prevent oil spills in the fragile, remote region under regulations the Obama administration imposed Thursday.
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July 01, 2016
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has underscored the criticality of oil and gas production in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to Alaska and the entire nation.
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June 17, 2016
On the eve of the conclusion of the Department of the Interior’s public consultation on its proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2017-2022, a group of foreign policy and national security leaders have submitted formal comments for the record in support of retaining the two Arctic leasing areas in the final program.
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June 17, 2016
Congressman Devin Nunes (CA-22), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives encouraging the Department of the Interior to advance its plan to sell two leases for energy development in the Arctic.
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May 24, 2016
Environmental activists who dangled from bridges and paddled kayaks around an Arctic rig have a new strategy for stopping oil development off U.S. coasts: persuading President Barack Obama to use a 1953 law to bar offshore drilling permanently.
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May 18, 2016
Alaska’s congressional delegation—Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young—has sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell urging the Department to keep all three lease sales proposed for Alaska’s OCS in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) final Five-Year Program for the years 2017 to 2022.
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May 10, 2016
After plunking down more than $2.5 billion for drilling rights in U.S. Arctic waters, Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and other companies have quietly relinquished claims they once hoped would net the next big oil discovery.
News
December 01, 2015
Proposed changes to federal rules regulating oil and natural gas activity on the Outer Continental Shelf and in the Arctic are necessary to create a predictable regulatory framework that supports safe exploration and American leadership in the Arctic, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R – Alaska) said Tuesday.
News
November 17, 2015
The leases in the Chukchi Sea are no longer considered competitive within Statoil’s global portfolio, so the decision has been made to exit the leases and close the office in Anchorage, Alaska.
Article
November 2015
Prices, sanctions and environmental politics chill the air
News
October 16, 2015
In light of current market conditions and low industry interest, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Friday that it will cancel the two potential Arctic offshore lease sales scheduled under the current five-year offshore oil and gas leasing program for 2012-2017.
Article
October 2015
Arctic: The real deal
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September 29, 2015
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- Alaska, once the workhorse of the U.S. oil industry, is being put out to pasture.
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September 29, 2015
The inglorious end to Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s $7 billion search for oil in Alaska means billions of barrels of crude will probably remain locked away in Arctic waters from the U.S. to Russia -- at least as long as prices remain near $50/bbl.
News
August 06, 2015
Many native Alaskans depend on the oil business—many work directly for the industry—and welcome Shell's exploration.
Article
May 2015
Alaska oil money, onshore and off
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April 10, 2015
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) deemed Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.’s revised multi-year Chukchi Sea exploration plan (EP) as ready for a formal review Friday and invited the public to submit their views on the plan.
