Gas
🏆 AKOGHS Honored with the 2025 Esther Billman Award for Excellence
The Alaska Oil & Gas Historical Society (AKOGHS) is proud to share that our project, Voices of the North: Chronicles of Alaska’s Oil & Gas Pioneers, has received the 2025 Esther Billman Award for Excellence from the Alaska Historical Society. AKOGHS Honored with the 2025 Esther Billman Award for Excellence This award recognizes outstanding contributions…
Read MoreAKOGHS Board Members to Present at Alaska Historical Society Conference
The Alaska Oil & Gas Historical Society (AKOGHS) is proud to share that two of our board members will be presenting at the upcoming Alaska Historical Society Conference, taking place September 24–27, 2025 in Fairbanks. As part of Session 4: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline (Thursday, September 25, 2–3:30 p.m.), AKOGHS leaders will contribute their unique insights…
Read MoreThe Trans-Alaska Pipeline at 50 — what we’ve learned and what comes next
By Philip Wight Fifty years ago, Alaska experienced the biggest man-made earthquake in our history. The ground shook as heavy machinery forged a new road to the Arctic Ocean, hundreds of thousands of new people flooded into the state and tens of thousands of workers built an unprecedented pipeline system. In the words of former Gov.…
Read MoreThe First Oil Wells in the Alaska Arctic
By Ross NixonOriginally published in Alaska Business in November, 2018 The path to Alaska’s modern day oil prosperity began with a top priority and long forgotten WWII expedition. This mission was a true epic, worthy of remembrance. ‘The difficult we can do at once, the impossible takes a little longer.’ Alaskan people always knew some…
Read MoreTrans-Alaska Pipeline: The Engineering Marvel that Revolutionized Alaska’s Oil Industry
The Creation of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorized by Richard Nixon in 1973 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an engineering marvel that transformed Alaska’s economy and revolutionized the way crude oil is transported. Authorized by President Richard Nixon in 1973, the construction of the pipeline was one of the largest and most complex engineering projects…
Read MoreOil discovered on Alaska’s North Slope
March 13, 1968 On this day in 1968, oil was discovered on Alaska’s North Slope. The Atlantic Richfield Company and Humble Oil and Refining Company announce the discovery of oil on the North Slope of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay marking a turning point in the history of the state and the United States as a…
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