Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski Reappoints Seamount to AOGCC

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Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski Reappoints Seamount to AOGCC

January 13, 2005--(Juneau) - Governor Frank H. Murkowski today announced the reappointment of Daniel T. Seamount to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC) effective March 1, 2005. The six-year appointment will expire in 2011. Seamount was originally appointed to the AOGCC in 2000. He fills a seat designated for a geologist.Seamount will continue his duties as one of three commissioners assigned to the AOGCC. These duties include regulating oil and gas drilling, development and production, reservoir depletion and metering operations. Other tasks overseen by the commission include prohibiting the physical waste of hydrocarbons, protecting correlative rights of mineral interest owners, assuring maximum ultimate recovery of hydrocarbon resources, administering Alaska’s Class II Underground Injection Control Program and determining well categories under the Federal Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978.

Seamount received a bachelor’s of science degree and a master’s of science degree in geology from the University of California, Riverside. Before his original appointment to the AOGCC, Seamount worked as a geologist for Chevron U.S.A Inc., Marathon Oil Co., and Union Oil Co. of California.

Seamount’s reappointment is subject to legislative confirmation.