Badami Changes Hands as APA Acquires Savant Alaska
A $70 million deal makes Badami Unit operator Savant Alaska part of APA Corporation, which has exploration assets nearby on the eastern North Slope.
Industry
Seward Cruise Terminal Opens with Small Business Accelerator Award
At the ribbon cutting for Seward’s new cruise ship terminal, Exit Glacier Greenhouses won the inaugural $20,000 prize in Royal Caribbean’s Port Partners small business accelerator program.
Reporting from the Reservation Economic Summit
For Alaska Native leaders, business owners, and tribal representatives, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s Reservation Economic Summit has become one of the most important national stages to understand where Indian Country is headed.
Alaskans Compete for ANWR Leases
While the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority enlarged its investments in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil leases, Cook Inlet gas producer HEX expanded into the North Slope with rival bids on a couple tracts.
R&M Consultants Adds Engineering Associate and Staff Geologist
R&M Consultants hired Aryan Azarsepandan as Engineering Associate in the Construction Services Department and Dylan Avirett as Staff Geologist in the Earth Sciences Department.
Holding Fast: Kelp Farms Seek Broader Market Base
When a major mariculture grant program ends this year, Alaska’s kelp farms will face one of their biggest tests thus far.