Prudhoe Bay News

The massive Kashagan field in Kazakhstan must start producing before the end of the year, Total's Chief Executive Officer Christophe de Margerie said on Tuesday.

Kazakhstan's foreign partners in developing the Kashagan oilfield will pay almost $1 billion this year and next to cover the state's portion of investment in the world's biggest oil discovery in 40 years, the oil and gas minister said on Monday.

Nick LaFave, an environmental science teacher at Clover High School in Clover, S.C., will be joining Duke University researcher, Amanda Koltz, in the Arctic Circle for six weeks studying wolf spider populations this summer.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is monitoring cleanup of recent spills in the state's two largest oil fields, Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk River.

The following information was submitted to Perkiomen Valley Patch: On June 10, Schwenksville resident Ted Danforth will set out on a 34-day solo motorcycle ride to Alaska.

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BP Exploration Inc. workers were preparing to vacuum up about 4,200 gallons of crude oil and a smaller amount of produced water that overflowed from a tank at a Prudhoe Bay oil-field facility, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said on Tuesday.

After an Superior Court ruling in its favor last fall, the Department of Natural Resources is terminating the Arctic Fortitude oil exploration unit on the North Slope.

It's a new season for the History Channel's Ice Road Truckers, and fans will be seeing some new faces, as well as some old ones, when Season 6 begins.

The Trans Alaska Pipeline will shut down briefly on Friday, the first in a series of up to five maintenance shutdowns planned for the summer, operator Alyeska Pipeline Service Co said on Wednesday.

At issue is potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for production shortfalls after 2006 spills at Prudhoe Bay The state and BP are about to begin arbitration proceedings over the 2006 pipeline leaks in the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

Memorial services will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Homer United Methodist Church for a Homer man killed in a construction accident last Friday afternoon.

Can Alaska's Gov. Sarah Palin , the state's first woman governor, its youngest, and also its first born since statehood in 1959, advance a world-scale pipeline that would bring clean-burning natural gas to the Lower 48? If she can, she will add to that impressive string of firsts and will bring a new boom to Alaska.

Though the trip won't be easy, Ted Danforth hopes his 12,000-mile, solo motorcycle ride to Alaska will make life a little easier for the 300,000 children in the U.S. diagnosed with juvenile arthritis.