Oil drilling

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Calling a proposal for oil and gas development in the Wyoming Range “monumental, far reaching and fraught with controversy,” Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal asked the U.S. Forest Service to consider withholding action on the proposal until the tools are in place to fully and effectively address the impact of development in the area.    » read more »

02/06/2008 -- WASHINGTON DC – Senator John Kerry made the following statement today, as the Federal Government began accepting bids for petroleum lease sale 193, which covers 30 million acres of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. Kerry has introduced legislation and repeatedly recommended that the lease sale be delayed until the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announces its final decision regarding the listing of the polar bear as a threatened species.    » read more »

February 6, 2008, Juneau, Alaska – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin congratulated the federal Minerals Management Service on the successful lease sale where oil companies bid a record $2.66 billion today for oil and gas leases in the Chukchi Sea off Northwest Alaska. According to the U.S. Department of Interior, this represents the largest Outer Continental Shelf lease sale in the history of Alaska.    » read more »

Conservation groups file suit to force disclosure

Juneau, AK (January 28, 2008) -- Today conservationists moved to force the Bush administration to disclose thousands of pages of documents related to oil and gas development plans in prime polar bear habitat. The documents all relate to government plans to lease nearly 30 million acres of the Arctic Ocean for oil and gas drilling. Advocates asked the government for these documents for several months before resorting to a lawsuit.    » read more »

November 11, 2007, Juneau, Alaska – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today thanked the members of the Alaska House of Representatives for their work in passing ACES.

"I am sincerely grateful to all the members of the House of Representatives for their efforts over the past 25 days.” Governor Palin said. “They have worked diligently in pursuing the people's business. All Alaskans can be proud of the bill the House has passed."    » read more »

August 13, 2007, HOUSTON - Halliburton's (NYSE: HAL) Completion and Production division has been awarded a four-year contract valued at more than (USD) $270 million by Petrobras Brazil. Halliburton will be working jointly with Expro to provide exploration and development testing services in high pressure, high temperature (HP/HT) and deepwater environments. The work will be done throughout Brazil and serviced from Halliburton operations in Macaé in southern Brazil and Mossoró in northern Brazil to optimize provision efficiencies.    » read more »

April 30, 2007 -- CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Expressing his concern that an initial exploratory drilling project in the Wyoming Range could be the “first domino” toward industrialization of the national forest, today Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal again relayed his opposition to full-scale natural gas development in the western Wyoming mountain range.    » read more »