SPARTAN 151 RIG, COOK INLET — Deep below the ocean floor outside Anchorage this spring, a huge drill bit chewed through multi-million-year-old sandstone, sending crushed bits of rock back to the ...

Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. The Trump administration is planning an oil and gas lease sale in federal territory of the inlet. It is set to be the first of ...

The comment period on the proposed 11th National OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program closes Friday. Read Story ...

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators announced Friday they are opening a "new chapter in oil and gas development" in the U.S. with lease sales slated for substantial areas in the Gulf of America and Alaska ...

The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources ...

Federal officials reaffirmed the results of a past oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, setting the stage for further drilling that environmental groups have fought over worries about whales ...

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 United States Department of the Interior (DOI) on Tuesday released a 2025-40 schedule for oil and gas area auctions consisting of at least 30 bidding rounds for the Gulf of America and at least ...