OCS–With Revenue Sharing Is Alaska’s Biggest Immediate Hope.  1) Landrieu Fights for Revenue Sharing.  2) We Must Personally Fight for OCS Access–Or No Revenue Share is Possible

ADN by Sean Cockerham.  Lawmakers said their accomplishments this year included tax credits meant to encourage exploration for natural gas in Cook Inlet. They also highlighted a bill putting the Alaska House Finance Corp. in charge of planning a small natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Southcentral Alaska.  The Legislature approved putting more than $15 million into that pipeline effort. The hope is to provide natural gas for in-state use, rather than export.  AHFC is to get a project plan to the Legislature by July 2011. Then lawmakers will decide if the state should subsidize the multibillion-dollar project.

Scandanavian Oil and Gas Magazine.  ExxonMobil has completed the world’s longest extended-reach well drilled from an existing offshore fixed platform drilling rig, increasing the company’s ability to produce more domestic oil supplies from existing facilities at the Santa Ynez unit, offshore southern California. The well drilled from the Heritage platform using ExxonMobil’s Fast Drill technology extends more than six miles horizontally and more than 7,000 feet below sea level.

Vancouver Sun.  After months of silence, another threatening letter linked to a series of bomb attacks on sour-gas wells and pipelines in northeastern British Columbia has been delivered to a local newspaper.

Seattle Times by Becky Bohrer (AP).  Everyone seems to agree there’s room for only one major pipeline to move natural gas from Alaska’s prodigious North Slope to North American markets. Now a high-stakes showdown is taking shape over who will be in charge and what it will take to make the long-hoped-for project economical and a reality.