Last week, Hilcorp was finally able to fix a fuel line in Cook Inlet that regulators say started leaking gas in December. But the oil and gas company and its allies are still struggling to contain another issue: environmental groups, which argue that Hilcorp’s problems in Cook Inlet disqualify the company from drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean.
Alaska's Energy Desk
BP well that spewed oil and gas successfully plugged
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation today announced that a leaking oil and gas well on the North Slope was successfully plugged.
Air pollution violations will cost seafood processing plant $3.2 million
The settlement reached Thursday with the Environmental Protection Agency comes eight years after employees at Westward Seafoods turned off air pollution controls and falsified records to cover their tracks.
In a rare case of river piracy, climate change is the culprit
A new report says it’s the first documented case of river piracy in modern times, linked to the planet heating up.
BP halts oil and gas leaking from North Slope well
BP announced Monday morning that an out-of-control release from a North Slope oil and gas production well has been stopped.
Senate committee grills state over inaccurate oil production forecast
Spring revenue forecast book predicts 12 percent drop in oil production next year.