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...It is even working with industry to certify gas as clean — a way to deal with its “issues” around methane and CO₂, , energy secretary Jennifer Granholm told us last week....
...At the Senate committee hearing last month Alaska’s Republican senator Lisa Murkowski echoed the oil producers’ rationale: “Sometimes our solutions are right in our backyard....
...would bring more crude across the border into Minnesota, and allowing a controversial Alaska oil project approved by the Trump administration to move ahead....
...Then, Blinken condemned the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, saying it would “divide Europe and weaken European energy security”....
...The warming climate in Alaska is making operations more difficult for oil producers....
...They include a “joint development agreement” between the state of Alaska, state-owned China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec), China’s sovereign wealth fund and Bank of China for a US liquid natural gas pipeline...
...BP too deploys drones to inspect pipelines in remote areas of Alaska....
...Mr Obama has established a pattern of proposing legislation — such as tax rises on the rich and making parts of Alaska off limits for oil drilling — that Republicans immediately declare to be a non-starter...
...But on bigger issues the chances of co-operation are slimmer....
...Eleven Democratic senators and all 45 Republicans are co-sponsoring a bill that seeks to give the pipeline immediate congressional approval, although Mr Obama could still veto the bill even if it passed...
...The agreement does not affect BP’s position as operator and co-owner of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay, one of the largest oilfields in the world....
...The Japan Bank for International Co-operation, the country’s state-owned development bank, last September signed a memorandum of understanding with Alaska, highlighting the North Slope’s 35tn cubic feet...
...Drones are nonetheless likely to prove popular for tasks such as surveying Alaska’s oil pipelines....
...Separately Shell has asked Washington for permission to drill in the Arctic, off the coast of Alaska, which keeps open the possibility the group may resume its exploration campaign there next year....
...One proposal in the oil industry has been to use them to scan pipelines for spills or other problems....
...(Reuters) “Exxon Mobil Pipeline faces a fine of nearly $2.7 million for a pipeline spill of thousands of barrels of Canadian crude oil in an Arkansas suburb last spring, the U.S. pipeline safety office...
...(Bloomberg) Brevan Howard is battling to stop a co-founder from launching a competitor in a court case that throws open details of the publicity-shy $37bn hedge fund for the first time....
...Linc Energy, a pioneer, has a demonstration facility in Australia and is also looking at Alaska....
...It mutters darkly that it will not sign any more deals and will henceforth fight as aggressively as ExxonMobil did after the Valdez tanker spill in Alaska in 1989....
...Its production is increasing, after years of decline, its balance sheet is strong and its pipeline of new projects is overflowing....
...Demand for tank cars has been driven by the sharp rise in crude oil production from shale oil reserves in North Dakota, which has overtaken Alaska to become the US’s second-biggest oil-producing state after...
...Rosneft and ExxonMobil are to jointly explore the area as part of the co-operation deal they signed in 2011....
...These ranged from explosions at its Grangemouth refinery in Scotland and at Texas City, via burst pipelines and gas leaks in Alaska and Azerbaijan to record fines in the US for sundry health and safety violations...
...Alaska and three oil giants may strike a deal as early as next week on developing a $40bn gas pipeline....
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