Alaska Open For Business As Trump Moves to Reverse Biden Era Oil and Gas Restrictions The Trump Administration plans to open up large swaths of land on Alaska’s North Slope to oil and gas exploration. The proposed change would undo policy protections put in place by the Biden Administration which blocked or limited exploration across the entire Alaska National Petroleum Reserve.
Biden Administration Extends Arctic Protections While Simultaneously Granting Oil Drilling Permits The US government greenlit a controversial oil and gas project in Arctic Alaska but also greatly expanded areas in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve that will remain off limits to future hydrocarbon development.
Shell Plans to Resume Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration in Arctic Alaska Oil Major Royal Dutch Shell submitted plans to resume oil and gas exploration in waters off Alaska’s northern coast. The news comes about fives years after the company abandoned costly efforts to find oil in the Burger J prospect area further to the west and in much deeper water in 2015.
