When, in 1966, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) was balking at continuing to explore for oil at Prudhoe Bay, Gov. Wally Hickel told them, “Drill or I will.” As Hickel later described it in his oral ...

A specialized unit called a jackup rig drilled a natural gas well in 2023 at Hilcorp’s Tyonek platform in state waters of Cook Inlet. The federal government received no bids Wednesday in what it ...

One way out of Alaska’s impending natural gas shortage could sit under the ocean floor, a few miles north and offshore of the Kenai Peninsula community of Anchor Point. There, a company says it’s ...

More than 70% of Alaskans live in the communities along the railbelt. Residents of those communities are facing a spike in energy costs that will bring up prices statewide, due to a looming shortage ...

A federal deadline came and went this week for oil companies to bid on around 1 million acres of drilling territory off Alaska’s Cook Inlet. “At this time, no bids have been received,” the Bureau of ...