Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Low clouds hang over Cook Inlet north of Anchor Point on Oct. 23, 2025. A federal oil and gas lease sale that offered about 1 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The “Big Beautiful Cook Inlet” oil and gas lease sale received no bids for drilling, according to the federal government. Up for grabs was more than one million acres off ...

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 ...

A specialized unit called a jackup rig drilled a natural gas well in 2023 at Hilcorp’s Tyonek platform in state waters of Cook Inlet. The federal government received no bids Wednesday in what it ...

No companies bid in a federal lease sale mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and only one bid for 20 acres was made as part of Alaska's annual lease sale. A federal lease sale mandated by the ...

Despite President Donald Trump’s promise to “drill, baby, drill,” a federal oil and gas auction in Cook Inlet generated zero offers from bidders on Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, an Alaska oil and gas ...

The next federally-mandated Cook Inlet lease sale is scheduled for March 2027.

No companies bid for the chance to drill in more than 1 million acres of water off Alaska’s Cook Inlet, the Interior Department said Wednesday. By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington The Trump ...

The first in a series of newly mandated oil and gas lease sales for federal waters of Alaska’s Cook Inlet received no bids, agency officials said on Wednesday. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy ...