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Federal Coordinator comments on open season negotiations
March 9, 2011
ANCHORAGE - Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects Federal Coordinator Larry Persily today released the following statement regarding ongoing open season negotiations for a North Slope gas pipeline.  Denali's statement Monday that it is continuing commercial negotiations with potential natural gas pipeline shippers was expected. Although the pipeline venture had hoped to announce successful results this month of its open season bidding for pipeline capacity, the immense cost,...
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Latest on LNG: spot market growing, but can the US compete?
March 1, 2011
Federal Coordinator Larry Persily attended the Platts' LNG conference Feb. 24-25 in Houston and prepared the following report. The LNG spot market is growing and customers are grabbing short-term deals at lower prices as gas suppliers work their way through a global oversupply. And even when supply and demand move back into balance, buyers will want more flexible contracts, said speakers at an LNG conference in Houston last week. Industry analysts also said it will be hard for U.S. gas exports...
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Federal Coordinator releases project attention items update
February 16, 2011
ANCHORAGE - The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects released the first semi-annual attention items update to its First-Phase Consolidated Implementation Plan for both the Alaska Pipeline Project and Denali-The Alaska Gas Pipeline. In its continuing effort to monitor the progress of federal activities for an Alaska natural gas pipeline, the Office of the Federal Coordinator will prepare semi-annual updates in February and August to assist the project...
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Report - Economic Analysis: Opportunity Cost and Comparison of Subsidizing an In-State Gas Pipeline vs. the Benefits to Alaska of a Mainline to the Lower 48 States
February 2, 2011
The direct and indirect benefits to the State of Alaska and its residents of a large-volume North Slope natural gas pipeline to serve in-state and Lower 48 markets would be substantial. Tax and royalty revenues would be significantly higher than from a small in-state-only gas pipeline; a large-volume mainline to Lower 48 markets would spur increased investment in new oil and gas exploration in Alaska; and the pipeline tariff for gas deliveries within Alaska would be substantially less with the...
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Natural gas experts coming to Alaska for public forum
December 16, 2010
ANCHORAGE - The federal coordinator's office for the Alaska natural gas pipeline today announced the four panelists for its Jan. 22 public forum on natural gas markets.  The experts are from the government, financial and consulting sectors and will explain Lower 48 supply and demand issues including shale gas, the effect of federal clean air regulations on natural gas demand, and foreign markets for liquefied natural gas. The public forum is set for 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Jan. 22 at the...
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Richards joins Office of the Federal Coordinator as Deputy
December 9, 2010
Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects Larry Persily today announced the addition to the agency of Frank Richards as the deputy federal coordinator.  Richards, deputy commissioner at the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, will join the federal gas line office by the first week of January. He will succeed Thomas Barrett, who is leaving the agency to take over as president of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Richards will manage the Alaska...
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Public forum on natural gas markets Jan. 22
November 29, 2010
The federal coordinator's office for the Alaska natural gas pipeline will sponsor a public forum on gas markets Jan. 22 to help Alaskans better understand the supply-and-demand fundamentals affecting the proposed pipeline project. The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects will bring to Alaska several national experts on Lower 48 supply and demand including shale gas, the effect of federal clean air regulations on natural gas demand, and foreign markets...
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Persily's statement on the pending departure of Deputy Federal Coordinator Tom Barrett
November 16, 2010
Barrett Departs Office of the Federal Coordinator ANCHORAGE, AK - Admiral Tom Barrett (ret), Deputy Federal Coordinator for AlaskaNatural Gas Transportation Projects, will leave the Office of the Federal Coordinator (OFC) in early December to join Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. as its new president. "Tom showed incredible skills in managing the various issues that arose from each of the federal agencies we work with daily. In addition, his more than 15 years in Alaska with the Coast Guard gave...
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Improved gas line website provides more information
October 21, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC - The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects has revised its website to provide more information for the public at www.arcticgas.gov. The site includes two new features: a permits matrix and news roundup. The permits matrix provides detailed information on more than two dozen federal permits required for an Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline, including statutory references, agency contact information, permit summaries, data...
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Persily speaks to the Alaska Support Industry Alliance Dinner
October 7, 2010
Federal Coordinator Persily spoke at the October 2010 Alaska Support Industry Alliance dinner.  The Alliance is made of the businesses, organizations and individuals that provide the products and services necessary to build the Alaska gas pipeline project.  Persily's message was to give the project time to come to fruition.  Although there are worries about the natural gas market, there is still time.  The economy will recover; demand for natural gas is increasing; and the...
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