Latest Cook Inlet Region Inc. Stories

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Native corporation Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI) and Houston-based Laurus Energy announced the formation of Stone Horn Ridge LLC, a company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). The Anchorage-based joint venture is developing syngas for power generation, ultra-clean liquid fuels and other industrial applications. Stone Horn Ridge's production site will be on resource-rich CIRI-owned land on the west side of...

HOUSTON, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Laurus Energy, a privately-held company developing underground coal gasification projects in North America, today announced it has closed on an agreement with Alaska Native corporation Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI) to develop an underground coal gasification project. The agreement will result in the first North American company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). The joint venture will be based outside of Anchorage....

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GeoPetro Resources Company ("GeoPetro", "we", "our" or the "Company") (NYSE Amex: GPR) is pleased to announce detailed information on the sale of its Cook Inlet Project to Linc Energy (Alaska) Inc. The Cook Inlet Project Over the past five years, GeoPetro has acquired a 100% working interest in approximately 123,000 acres onshore in the Cook Inlet region of Alaska (the "Alaska Leases"). The leasehold position consists of two separate target...

By Tim Bradner, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage Jun. 22--Joint venture partners Cook Inlet Region Inc. and California-based wind energy company enXco Inc. say they could begin preliminary site work this summer in preparation for a wind energy project on Fire Island. Preliminary engineering and wetlands mapping to prepare for permit applications will be underway this summer, and some work could begin on improvements to roads and construction of a barge landing site, said Jim Jager, a...

By Richard Mauer, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dec. 31--One of Alaska's most prominent Native corporations is accusing a leading contractor of misappropriating and otherwise unlawfully taking more than $40 million from the Anchorage firm it hired him to run. Anchorage-based Cook Inlet Region Inc. and its partner, Houston-based Nabors Industries, are embroiled in a massive lawsuit against John Ellsworth, the longtime president of Alaska Interstate Construction, or AIC. The case has drawn...