In a successful cooperative effort involving the U.S. Department of Energy/Office of Fossil Energy (DOEIFE), Alaska Oil and Gas Association, the State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Alaskan oil, gas, and coal producers, DOE held a two-day workshop in Anchorage, Alaska. The purposes were to discuss how to maximize development of fossil energy resources in Alaska, and to determine how DOE could assist Alaska in ensuring future growth of its energy industry. About 100 attendees participated in the workshop, including representatives of the oil, gas, and coal industries, Federal and State organizations, environmental groups, academia, and other interested parties. Robert Kripowicz, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fossil Energy, initiated the first day of the workshop with his Perspectives on Alaska. This was followed by presentations on oil, gas, and coal resources of Alaska, and the Alaska Energy Infobank. That afternoon and the second day sessions focused on identification of issues, strategies, DOE's role, and next steps. Following the plenary presentations and immediately prior to the breakout sessions, all attendees participated in an exercise to identify the universe of issues facing fossil energy development in Alaska. During this session, the workshop attendees selected Access and Resource Development related to oil and gas; Power Generation; and the Alaska Energy Infobank (AEI or Infobank) as the topics of the breakout sessions. In addition to these three subjects, heavy oil received a considerable amount of attention by attendees. However, it was recognized that the magnitude of the issues relating to heavy oil production and refining warranted being the focus of a separate workshop. Although not the subject of a breakout session, the sense of the discussion pertaining to heavy oil issues and possible discussion areas of the proposed workshop is presented in Section 5.1.4 as background to the reader. The results of the breakout sessions were summarized and presented by each group in the afternoon of the second day. Sandra Waisley, Deputy Assistant Secretary (Acting) for the Office of Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology, concluded the workshop with a summary of issues, DOE's role, and next steps. Ms. Waisley emphasized that Alaska's energy industry has been vital to the U.S. economy and National security and said Alaska will continue to be important in the next century.