...spokesman Tom Koch told the Anchorage Daily News. BP is the only North Slope producer that sells its crude abroad. Chuck Logsdon, Alaska's chief oil economist, said the BP exports have raised the price of North Slope crude by about 50 cents...

...competitor into Alaska's oil industry. A year of high oil prices benefitted the industry and added to state coffers. Chuck Logsdon, the state's oil economist, said the price of oil averaged about $28.48 a barrel in 2000. That's the highest...

...Wellhead prices are only roughly comparable to the New York exchange's futures prices, said petroleum economist Chuck Logsdon, with the state Department of Revenue. Nevertheless, he said, ''gas prices are sending a very strong signal that...