Two major utilities in Anchorage are expanding their natural gas storage in reservoirs in the Cook Inlet region to help counteract a shortage of locally produced gas that's the dominant energy source ...

The natural gas utility for Southcentral Alaska said a prolonged cold snap in recent weeks increased the demand for gas from the region’s main storage facility. But the facility, called Cook Inlet ...

The agency alleges an environmental study by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was conducted with a “serious” lack of transparency.

Our parents raised us on the north end of Chisik Island in the mouth of Tuxedni Bay on the west side of Cook Inlet. Mom and Dad started setnetting there in 1970. We grew up in a subsistence lifestyle ...

A federal judge has upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s new system to manage commercial harvests in federal waters of Cook Inlet, concluding that the agency has no obligation to extend that ...

The US Interior Department unveiled a detailed schedule for offshore oil and gas lease sales from 2025 to 2040, including 15 sales in the Gulf of Mexico and 6 in Alaska's Cook Inlet. The US Interior ...

The Trump administration on Monday outlined its plans to auction 1 million acres of federal offshore territory in what it has called the “Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale.” The lease ...

・The Gulf auction is expected to take place on Dec. 10, 2025, while the Alaska lease sale is scheduled for March 4, 2026. ・The Gulf auction entails nearly 80 million acres for exploration and ...

Companies will soon be able to bid on opportunities to tap a volcanic island in Cook Inlet to generate renewable energy. Alaska officials have scheduled a geothermal lease sale covering a little more ...

Natural gas production in Cook Inlet averaged 210,730 thousand cubic feet per day in November, down 1.06%, 2,263 mcf per day, from an October average of 212,993 mcf per day but up 10.73% from a ...

Air Force engineers and archaeologists in Alaska have discovered a food cache on the Upper Cook Inlet southwest of Anchorage used 1,000 years ago to store salmon, moose, caribou, and berries. “This is ...

Alaska North Slope production averaged 471,651 barrels per day in November, the most recent month for which the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission reports data by well and field. That was a ...