Commission Functions & Processes
General Functions
Oversight and Surveillance Functions
Overview
- Prevent waste of Alaska's oil and gas resources
- Protect correlative rights of the mineral interest owner
- Maximize recovery of oil and gas for the benefit of Alaska's citizens
- Protect freshwater from contamination by oil/gas/mud during drilling, production, and abandonment operations
- Administer Alaska's Underground Injection Control program for oil and gas wells
- Inspect oil field drilling, production, metering, and abandonment activities
- Evaluate, modify, and approve drilling and workover operations
- Evaluate, modify, and approve oil pool development rules
- Adjudicate disputes between owners
- Maintain state production records
- Maintain well history files and well records
Customers
- Oil and gas industry
- Concerned citizens and organizations
- Alaska Department of Natural Resources
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- Alaska Department of Revenue
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
