US judge suspends Alaska Cook Inlet lease, pending additional environmental review By: Becky Bohrer, The Associated Press Posted: 2:40 PM CDT Wednesday, Jul. 17, 2024 Last Modified: 5:13 PM CDT ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared in the Aug. 7, 2005, issue of Petroleum News. Pioneer Natural Resources said Aug. 1, 2005, that its Alaska subsidiary has signed an agreement with ...

Jun. 16—SPARTAN 151 RIG, COOK INLET — Deep below the ocean floor outside Anchorage this spring, a huge drill bit chewed through multi-million-year-old sandstone, sending crushed bits of rock ...

Starting in about 2000, UCIDA said in a brief filed on Nov. 6, state management “took a turn for the worse, and salmon harvest in Cook Inlet began a precipitous and lasting decline that has now ...

The Cook Inlet basin is Alaska’s oldest producing oil and gas basin, dating back to the 1950s, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

The US will hold at least two offshore oil and gas lease sales in the US Gulf and one in Alaska’s Cook Inlet by 2026, as mandated by the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the ...

Cook Inlet is Alaska's oldest producing oil and gas basin, where production peaked in the 1970s, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Alaska's most populous region relies on natural ...

Production in Cook Inlet began in the 1950s and peaked in the 1970s, when the industry extracted more than 200,000 barrels of oil a day — more than 1% of America’s consumption at the time.

FILE - Visitors to Point Woronzof Park watch the sun set over Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna, on June 7, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, has suspended the lone ...