In a recent interview, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) discussed opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to responsible drilling. "ANWR is an area the size of the state of South Carolina. The part that would be drilled is an area the size of JFK airport or Washington National Airport or Dallas Love Field," said Sen. Hutchision. "It's an area the size of an airport because the new technology allows us to drill underground for just hundreds of yards and you don't have to have a lot of wells to drill anymore."
Anchorage – Oil industry giants Conoco/Philips and BP Exploration have joined forces to propose a new approach to the Alaska Gas Pipeline project. The two Alaska North Slope oil producers called their proposal “Denali” and stated a new company would be started to see the project through.