Alaska starts bidding process for gas pipeline
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Gov. Sarah Palin said on Tuesday that Alaska has officially started soliciting bids for plans to build a North Slope natural gas pipeline, a mega-project that state officials have dreamed about for decades.
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Oil comany Chevron and leading carriers AT&T, Verizon want to join the bidders, which include Google.
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The Interior Department yesterday announced $2.6 billion in winning bids from companies seeking to drill for oil and gas in Alaska's Chukchi Sea despite protests from environmental groups and members of Congress that oil and gas exploration would endanger polar bears.
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The United States will be in on bidding for oil development and prospecting tenders in Libya for the first time in 20 years, an official said Monday.
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MOSCOW - Bidding for Yukos&#39;s main oil-pumping division, Yuganskneftgaz, will proceed as scheduled on Sunday, say Russian officials.
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High gasoline prices already had most people cutting back on driving before the shutdown of an Alaska pipeline threatened to push costs even higher. However, few drivers are making bigger changes, such as carpooling or using mass transit.
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In an attempt to create a state energy leviathan, Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom said that it would bid for the prize assets of oil giant Yukos.
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WASHINGTON -- BP PLC plans to ask federal regulators this week to resume operation of a segment of its pipeline so further tests can be made in hopes of restoring full production on Alaska's North Slope, a company executive told a Senate hearing Tuesday.
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The federal government will open up nearly 46,000 square miles off Alaska's northwest coast to petroleum leases next month, a decision condemned by enviromental groups that contend the industrial activity will harm northern marine mammals.
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BP Plc BP.L this week will conduct   safety tests and seek government permission to restart part of   the eastern Prudhoe Bay oil field pipeline in Alaska that was   shut due to corrosion, the company told Congress on Tuesday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Outgoing Alaska Gov. Frank   Murkowski said Wednesday he plans to call a third legislative   session to try to win approval for a more than $20 billion   natural gas pipeline deal that would pump badly needed fuel to   the U.S. Midwest.
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By S.J. Komarnitsky, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Mar. 9--WASILLA -- A proposed permit to allow exploratory coal drilling  around the Matanuska Valley community of Chickaloon prompted a deluge of  responses from concerned residents and others.
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ANCHORAGE (Bloomberg News) â Royal Dutch Shell, the oil company, offered to pay $2.1 billion in an oil and natural gas lease sale, becoming the biggest bidder for the rights in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The operator of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System was on the lookout Monday for a piece of a cleaning device -- called a pig -- that mysteriously got dislodged somewhere inside the 800-mile oil pipeline in December.
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The Russian government today set an auction date of Dec. 19 for the country's No. 1 oil producer, with a starting price at about $8.6 billion.
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MOSCOW  - Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed off Friday on a project to build an oil pipeline stretching from eastern Siberia to the port of Pervoznaya on Russia's Pacific Coast.
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Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski, battling to hold her seat in the closely divided U.S. Senate, said on Tuesday congressional approval of a bill backing a proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline proved why she should be returned to office.