As the world pivots toward lower-carbon energy sources, experts say some of the state’s hard-to-tap oil prospects are becoming less attractive.
North Slope
Alaska commission fines Hilcorp $452,100 for violations at North Slope oil sites
The violations concern injections of miscible gas, a substance that blends with oil to enhance oil recovery.
Willow opponents try again, this time in a US appeals court, to block the ConocoPhillips project
ConocoPhillips has already begun to develop Willow, but environmental organizations and a group of Inupiat people are still trying to stop it.
Alaska is short on gravel and long on development projects
The state’s North Slope communities need rocks, and they’re hard to come by.
Federal judge rejects legal challenge to ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project
The massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope can move forward, a federal judge in Anchorage ruled Thursday.
Chum salmon are spawning in North Slope rivers, University of Alaska researchers find
A University of Alaska Fairbanks team last month found about 100 chum salmon that were spawning or had just spawned in the Anaktuvuk and Itkillik rivers.