Happy Tuesday! It’s a pretty nice day with the sun shining and the blue skies, nonetheless it feels like summer already. It’s supposed to be 89°, and it was after 5 p.m. and it was that exact temperature.
We always enjoy a follow-up story,
and we did say, if we heard anything else on this Alaskan wonderland! We blogged about the about Department of
Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) having completed their Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and them publishing the Final
EIS for the Alaska’s Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) back in
December. We blogged on how the lease
sale in January didn’t even get a nibble.
The new administration believes they may have an answer to the dismal
response from the January lease sale.
Did anyone
happen to read the Oil & Gas Journal’s OGJ Daily Update Newsletter on
January 24, 2025, their article titled, “DOI, BLM aim to advance oil and gas development
in Alaska”? In the article, it speaks on
how U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) and its office of Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) have initiated actions to get things moving for oil and gas in
Alaska and the first was to sign official orders from the President and Secretary’s
desks. The orders were both named,”
Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential.” In the orders, they revived the National
Petroleum Reserve by opening more of the land which had previously been closed
to oil and gas leasing in the 23-million-acre reserve. The next item was they reestablished the
option to allow oil and gas leasing in the 1.56-milion-acre Coastal Plain of
the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Lastly, they transferred ownership along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Corridor
and Dalton Highway north of the Yukon River to the State of Alaska to help move
the Ambler Road and the Alaska Liquified Natural Gas Pipeline project forward. Well, we said we would keep our eyes open on this
area of the country, and the changes didn’t disappoint! Well, we will let you know, if we hear
anything else on this American treasure! If you would like to read more of the Oil
& Gas Journal’s article, please click the link: DOI,
BLM aim to advance oil and gas development in Alaska | Oil & Gas Journal.
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project you would like to see get off the ground or you would like to see
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We hope you have a wonderful evening!
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