Doyon conducts oil and gas exploration.

AuthorPounds, Nancy
PositionInside Alaska Business

Doyon Ltd., the Fairbanks-based Alaska Native corporation, sponsored new oil and gas exploration this winter in the Yukon Flats area. The project, which was to begin by press time, was due to be completed in early April. Efforts were to survey a 200,000-acre block of Alaska Native lands north of Stevens Village. The land is owned by Doyon and Dinyee, the Alaska Native village corporation for Stevens Village. The area is adjacent to the trans-Alaska oil pipeline corridor and within 15 miles to 30 miles of the pipeline.

"Our efforts in the Yukon Flats this winter are part of a multi-year plan to conduct additional exploration on a...

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