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 ...

Oil and gas platforms in Cook Inlet in 2021, as seen from a floatplane. The Trump administration has announced plans to hold six oil and gas lease sales in Cook Inlet over the next six years, starting ...

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 ...

There were no takers for the Trump administration's offer of new offshore oil and gas exploration opportunities in Alaska's Cook Inlet in the US on Wednesday. Big Beautiful Cook Inlet Oil and Gas ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska— A federally recognized Alaska Native Tribal Nation, along with several community and environmental health and justice groups, notified the Department of the Interior and the Bureau ...

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 ...