The cloud had drifted in a northeasterly direction and occupied much of the airspace over the Gulf of Alaska.
Their base is on what the city of Kodiak's website calls the second-largest island in the United States, situated in the Gulf of Alaska about 250 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The ship drifted into U.S. waters over the weekend, traveling about a mile per hour and making its way toward the rich fishing waters of the Gulf of Alaska, Mosley said.
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Fishermen in Cordova and other Gulf of Alaska towns are still struggling with scarcer catches, and Indians who live along the shore sense that their land has changed for the worse.
The latest sea-surface height measurements reveal unusually cool water (shown as blue and purple) and sea levels that are two to seven inches below normal, extending from the Gulf of Alaska along the coast of North America.
W. Bush issued an executive order not to conduct further offshore leasing or pre-leasing activities, with exceptions in much of the Gulf of Mexico and parts of Alaska.
Twelve years after an infamous spill from a well off Santa Barbara in 1969, Congress barred the government from issuing new offshore leases anywhere but in the western Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
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It was a desire to keep the oil cartel's market power in check during the oil-price shocks of the 1970s that led western oil companies, denied access to the bounties of the Gulf, to begin extracting oil from the North Sea, Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
All told we plan to make available more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico.
We recently discussed this in an article titled Oil Majors Wait for Permits to Drill in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico.
In addition to drilling in the Arctic, Exxon and other oil majors are hoping to receive permits for new projects in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.
As a result, U.S. crude oil production was up 150, 000 barrels per day to 5.51 million bpd last year, despite downturns in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.
Out of desperation, Exxon, BP and others poured billions into non-OPEC areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea and Alaska.
In the U.S., major federal industry partnerships have been formed in both the Gulf of Mexico and on the North Slope of Alaska.
Even if the oil never hits the coast in significant quantities, it remains in the Gulf of Mexico, a body of water that cannot be as easily overlooked as Prince William Sound, Alaska.
The federal government's new wariness about offshore drilling in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is dimming what may be the best hope for extending the life of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a crucial artery supplying one-quarter of the West Coast's oil.
No wonder no one is talking about the cost of hurting tourism in the Gulf, or the West and yes, Alaska, while we plant oil derricks, fracking pads and outdated pipelines in our most cherished places.
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Browne was no doubt referring to last year's temporary closure of some operations at the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, delays to the opening of BP's Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and problems stemming from the 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15 BP employees.
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