🏆 AKOGHS Honored with the 2025 Esther Billman Award for Excellence

By Editor | October 13, 2025 |

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…

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The First Oil Wells in the Alaska Arctic

By Ross Nixon | January 14, 2025 |

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…

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