{"id":258234,"date":"2026-05-27T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/ninth-circuit-denies-privacy-to-oil-company-over-alaska-drilling-data\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:51:18","slug":"ninth-circuit-denies-privacy-to-oil-company-over-alaska-drilling-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/ninth-circuit-denies-privacy-to-oil-company-over-alaska-drilling-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninth Circuit denies privacy to oil company over Alaska drilling data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/ninth-circuit-denies-privacy-to-oil-company-over-alaska-drilling-data\/\">Ninth Circuit denies privacy to oil company over Alaska drilling data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/ninth-circuit-denies-privacy-to-oil-company-over-alaska-drilling-data\/\">https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/ninth-circuit-denies-privacy-to-oil-company-over-alaska-drilling-data\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 16:48:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.courthousenews.com\">www.courthousenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ConocoPhillips wanted to prevent an Alaska commission from releasing information about its oil wells, but the appellate panel found that there&#8217;s no federal law that stops the state from disclosing the data.<\/p>\n<p>(CN) \u2014 A Ninth Circuit panel determined on Wednesday that no federal law requires petroleum well data from an oil and gas company to remain private.<\/p>\n<p>A lower court ruled previously Alaska\u2019s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission couldn\u2019t release data about wells ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. wanted shielded because federal law preempts a state statute requiring the disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>But U.S. Circuit Judge Eric Miller, a Donald Trump appointee, writing for the three-judge panel, said no supremacy clause issues exist with the Alaska petroleum reserve.<\/p>\n<p>That clause means federal law trumps state statute when there\u2019s a conflict, but Miller didn\u2019t see any \u201cexpress\u201d conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConocoPhillips argues that the Production Act expressly preempts Alaska law,\u201d Miller said. \u201cThat argument gets off to a difficult start because the Production Act does not have a preemption clause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company conceded that point, but argued the act incorporates a preemption clause from another law.<\/p>\n<p>The panel was unconvinced. Miller wrote that the Production Act incorporates certain conditions listed in another law \u2014 data-submission requirements \u2014 and nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>States have no power to collect data from companies operating on the Outer Continental Shelf, Miller wrote. But Congress included provisions making that information, given to the federal government, available to the states. The federal government can share that data, though states can\u2019t disclose it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the Reserve, by contrast, Alaska has its own authority to gather \u2014 and disclose \u2014 data collected from oil and gas exploration, authority that it exercised even before Congress opened the Reserve to private exploration,\u201d Miller wrote.<\/p>\n<p>ConocoPhillips leased federal land on the National Petroleum Reserve\u2013Alaska and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/ninth-circuit-denies-privacy-to-oil-company-over-alaska-drilling-data\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninth Circuit denies privacy to oil company over Alaska drilling data https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/ninth-circuit-denies-privacy-to-oil-company-over-alaska-drilling-data\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-27&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/wKQ19LTSBT0ARz08tkssqQ\/www.courthousenews.com\/2023\/03\/willow-oil-project-proposed-site.jpg\/w=1300,h=731,fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258236,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258234\/revisions\/258236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}