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State denies Donkel request for three-lease expansion of GPTU (opens the original)
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The Alaska Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Oil and Gas has turned down a Feb. 27 application from Donkel Oil and Gas to expand the Greater Point Thomson unit. The unit was approved June 25, 2025. The division approved a revised GPTU on Jan. 8, expanding the unit from 35,122 acres to 49,562 acres. In the February expansion application, Donkel Oil and Gas, the unit operator, requested the addition of three leases. In the division’s Sept. 18 decision, Director Haley Paine said the thre
Baker Hughes US rig count up by 4 to 595 (opens the original)
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Baker Hughes’ U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 595 on Sept. 18 up by four from last week and up by 53 from 542 a year ago, continuing its climb into the 590s, a range it reached in mid-August and has been in for three of the last six weeks after being below 590 since early April 2025. The count has increased in seven of the last 12 weeks. For 2025, the count peaked in February and again in March at 593, hitting its low point in August at 526. For 2024, the count peaked in March at 629, hitting
New wells, infrastructure OK'd at Paxton pad in Ninilchik unit (opens the original)
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The Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas has approved a unit plan of operations amendment for the Paxton Pad at the Ninilchik unit on the Kenai Peninsula. In a Sept. 21 decision, the division said Hilcorp Alaska, operator of the unit, applied for the plan amendment in September. Hilcorp requested authorization to drill two grassroots wells and install additional associated infrastructure on the Paxton Pad which is in the Ninilchik unit on the southern Kenai Peninsula s
State begins ROW renewal for Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (opens the original)
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Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. applied Sept. 2 for renewal of the state right of way for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources said Sept. 9 in announcing a public hearing schedule for the renewal application. DNR said TAPS documents are available at: https://dog.dnr.alaska.gov/Library?Pipeline=Trans-Alaska%20Pipeline%20System. The Bureau of Land Management initiated the process for renewing the federal right of way on Aug. 26, announcing that Alyeska, the ope
Baker Hughes US rig count up by 3 to 591 (opens the original)
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Baker Hughes' U.S. rotary drilling rig count was 591 on Sept. 11, up by three from last week and up by 52 from 539 a year ago, bouncing back into the '90s for the second time this year, after being below 590 since early April 2025. The count has increased in seven of the last 12 weeks. For 2025, the count peaked in February and again in March at 593, hitting its low point in August at 526. For 2024, the count peaked in March at 629, hitting its low point in June at 581. In 2023 the count peaked
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