Gas Pipeline and Regulatory Commission of Alaska and NARUC and Oxford Club Updates ...

...will begin showing up Wednesday afternoon following a number of meetings and conference calls.     -dh     PNA via ADN.   North Slope production dropped 17 percent from May to June as the trans-Alaska oil pipeline took its first planned summer timeout for maintenance work June 20-21. North Slope production dropped below 300,000 barrels per day over that weekend.      *         Calgary Herald by Kelly Cryderman. 
More than 20,000 old oil and gas wells across the province have been sitting abandoned or inactive for more than a decade without being cleaned up, worrying landowners and environmentalists who say the sites unnecessarily eat up and possibly contaminate valuable farm land.