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Stelmach advising Ukraine on gas development plans - Calgary Herald - Main callout pointer for calgaryheraldcom ..... Lougheed served on a number of corporate boards became involved in the development of a gas pipeline to the....

Fairbanks Daily News Miner by Max Buxton.  Slow progress on an in-state natural gas line to bring the inexpensive, clean burning fuel from the North Slope into Fairbanks has Interior lawmakers looking at alternatives.   Rep. Bob Miller, D-Fairbanks, on Wednesday introduced a measure to study the feasibility of extending Southcentral’s existing natural gas system to the Interior within the next few years.

ADN by Lisa Demer.  A Canadian energy business announcedColleen Starring, ENSTAR, by Dave Harbour Wednesday it will pay $1.1 billion to buy the parent company of Enstar Natural Gas Co., the lone distributor of natural gas to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in Southcentral Alaska.  "Basically, it's operations as normal," Enstar spokesman John Sims said. Enstar's management team remains intact, including Colleen Starring (NGP Photo)  as president, he said. The name Enstar stays too, he said.  AltaGas calls itself an energy infrastructure company and says the purchase will help it grow into one of North America's biggest energy companies. It already gathers, processes, transports and stores natural gas. It has wind and hydro projects. Natural gas utilities currently operated by AltaGas serve 119,000 customers in Alberta, Nova Scotia, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.

Cora Campbell, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Photo by Dave HarbourDoug Vincent-Lang, Alaska Fish and Game, Wildlife Conservation, ESI, Photo by Dave HarbourComment.  Unlike the Alaska Dispatch Op-Ed writer, we have a high regard for Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioners Cora Campbell (NGP Photo) and her acting Director of the Division of Wildlife Conservation, Doug Vincent-Lang. (NGP Photo)  We have witnessed both of them in public briefings and answering media questions.  They do their homework and appear to be highly dedicated.  While the writer of the piece may have his own reasons for attacking the reputations of the two officials, he doesn't provide a very convincing rationale or set of facts upon which to base such assassinations of character.  -dh

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Shell CEO Says Arctic Focus On Alaska, Greenland - Fox Business - Royal Dutch Shell PLC's (RDSA.LN) plans to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic region will be centered on Alaska and Greenland, though the Anglo-Dutch major is also eyeing Russia's far north as an exploration frontier, said Chief Executive Peter Voser.

 

Industry establishes Canada-wide operating practices for shale, tight natural gas hydraulic fracturing - Digital Journal The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers today announced new Canada-wide hydraulic fracturing operating practices designed to improve water management and water and fluids reporting for shale gas and tight gas development across Canada.

 

ConocoPhillips says more study needed of Alaska LNG exports - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Dermont Cole, "And it is really not just thinking about it from the perspective of Lower 48 natural gas production, but as we think about what long-term alternatives are for Canadian gas production, and importantly, as we think about what alternatives could be for development of the North Slope gas in Alaska. Those are all things that we'll be investigating whether liquefaction and export of natural gas makes sense going forward."

 

Officials answer proposed Alaska gas pipeline questions – Fairbanks Daily nNews-Miner, Mary Beth Smetzer, Fewer than 50 people turned out Monday evening for the public scoping meeting conducted by the federal agency about environmental concerns of the proposed natural gas pipeline from the North Slope’s Prudhoe Bay to Canada.

 

OVERNIGHT ENERGY: House Republicans forge ahead on drilling - The Hill, Ben Geman and Andrew Restuccia, The House Natural Resources Committee will mark up bills that open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development; mandate far wider offshore leasing; and seek to spur oil shale development in western states.