A federal judge in Alaska has decided in favor of ConocoPhillips in a dispute with state regulators, ruling that the oil company can keep well data from its huge Willow discovery confidential for now.
that data associated with oil and gas wells be made public after two years — a period that has already passed for the wells in question. The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the state agency that permitted the ConocoPhillips’ wells in the reserve, had said it would publicly release the data unless it was stopped from doing so by a court decision.
“Less exploration of the NPR-A is the opposite of Congress’s objective in , which was to promote the expeditious private exploration of this federal land,” Gleason wrote. “Congress recognized the need to protect the confidentiality of well data in order to promote that goal. It would make no sense for Congress to prohibit the federal government from publicly disclosing well data for the duration of an NPR-A lease but permit a state to disclose such information prior to the end of the lease.
She said that arrangement creates a balance of data-sharing that Congress intended, with private exploration incentivized while the state receives important information for conservation and oversight purposes.
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