Prudhoe Bay News

The Racing Green Endurance team, hailing from Imperial College London , are putting together an all-electric version of the Radical SR8 to demonstrate to the world the possibilities of this powertrain.

A North Slope worker was killed Wednesday when a pickup truck pinned him against a section of pipe, according to BP.

CONTRADICTORY: Research funded by oil interests conflicts with conventional wisdom.

BP Exploration opened its first office in Alaska in 1959, and drilled a confirmation well for the Prudhoe Bay discovery a decade later.

Scott Napier at the end of the world. Scott Napier On October 25, 2009 Scott Napier considered himself the happiest man on earth - and with good reason.

Alaska will probably see most of its surface permafrost vanish by the end of this century, but researchers believe vast areas of frozen soil will remain deeper underground even as air temperatures increase.

The U.S. is in the thick of a fight to access huge reserves at the top of the world.

PINNED: Alaska West Express worker, Fay, suffers crushed chest. Published: November 2nd, 2009 06:13 PM Last Modified: November 2nd, 2009 10:20 PM The state Department of Labor is investigating a North Slope work accident that left a man in critical care with a crushed chest.

American industrialist Jean Paul Getty knew how to get ahead. His "formula for success" was straightforward: "Rise early, work hard, strike oil." You wonder if Tony Hayward, BP's chief executive, isn't on to something similar after yesterday's slick third-quarter results.

This week Tony Hayward, the chief executive of BP, must have thought that he had finally moved out of the long shadow of Lord Browne of Madingley.

Alaskan leaders say expanding the state oil and gas sector will bring recovery to a market hurt by falling energy prices amid a global economic recession.

RACHEL D'ORO POSTED: 2:22 pm EDT October 27, 2009 UPDATED: 4:31 pm EDT October 27, 2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reported that she has received at least $1.25 million for her hugely anticipated upcoming memoir "Going Rogue." A disclosure statement released Tuesday discusses Palin's finances from Jan.

National peer review recommends Alaska take a top-down look at oil and gas failures costliest to state, get industry cooperation Kristen Nelson Petroleum News An oil and gas infrastructure risk assessment methodology developed by a contractor for the State of Alaska has received failing marks in a review by the National Academy of Sciences.

DAN JOLING ANCHORAGE, Alaska a ' Sarah Palin hit the vice presidential campaign trail last year and touted what Alaska could provide for the rest of America a ' a natural gas pipeline to help lead the country to energy independence.

Prudhoe Bay field operator BP Exploration has applied to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for an amendment of pool rules for Orion, a Schrader Bluff oil reservoir and one of the western Prudhoe satellite fields.

EXPERTS: Study is too dependent on industry cooperation, panel says. Published: October 20th, 2009 10:04 PM Last Modified: October 20th, 2009 10:58 PM A panel of national scientific experts is raising serious concerns about the state-led, $5 million project to evaluate risks posed by Alaska's aging oil and gas infrastructure.

The march of offshore oil development into the Arctic has been given a boost by the federal Minerals Management Service, which approved Shell Offshore Inc.'s plan to drill exploratory wells in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska.

The treacherous, ice-choked waters off Alaska have long lured risk-A taking fortune hunters seeking furs, fish, or other riches.

North Slope production averaged 676,664 barrels of oil per day last month, up 18 percent from August, the state Revenue Department reported.

Oil and gas drive, but how long? Jay Ramras, Community Perspective Published Sunday, October 11, 2009 When Ebenezer Scrooge was confronted by the ghosts of the past, present and future, he was changed.