Santos Limited's operating subsidiary in Alaska, Oil Search (Alaska), or OSA, is looking to expand the 77,744-acre Pikka unit by 19,664 acres of state land. The Pikka unit is located on the North ...

On Jan. 28 Nuiqsut Trilateral Inc. filed a lawsuit in the federal District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the Dec. 19 cancellation by the Department of the Interior of a right of way ...

Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 550 on Feb. 27, down by one from the previous week and down 43 from 593 a year ago. The domestic rig count has ranged from the 530s through the 550s ...

Unified Command reports that roughly 47% of the overall rig has been deconstructed. The deconstructed rig, Doyon Rig 26, will ultimately be cleaned and transported to a recycling facility. The rig ...

Hilcorp Alaska has drilled two grassroots wells at the old Sterling pad on the Kenai Peninsula, with gas from one of the wells initially showing up on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission ...

The Alaska Division of Oil and Gas garnered only a single bid in its March 4 Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale and no bids were received for the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's Cook Inlet ...

PND Engineers, Inc. is excited to announce new hire Sean Baski, PE, who started at the PND office in Anchorage on March 3, 2026. Baski, a University of Alaska Anchorage alumnus (B.S., Civil ...

Cook Inlet natural gas production for January averaged 209,542 thousand cubic feet per day, up 325 mcf per day, 0.15%, from a December average of 209,218 mcf per day and up 11.92% from a January 2025 ...

On Feb. 26, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas sent an email to Smith Bay Company Alaska Inc. President David Pfeiffer reminding him of the status of ongoing ...

BOEM releases 5 Beaufort seismic datasets. Kay Cashman. Petroleum News. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region said March 2 that it has ...

North Slope production down 1% in January. Average 472,413 bpd; Greater Mooses Tooth has major increase; Prudhoe, Milne, Colville River show largest month-over-month declines. Kri ...

DNR releases North Slope O&G Activity Map. Kay Cashman. Petroleum News. The latest North Slope Oil and Gas Activity Map, dated January 2026, was released at the end of January by ...