Offtakes from a large North Slope natural gas pipeline could supply gas to Alaskans for decades, but delivery would come with an upfront cost of over a billion dollars.
Even then, only people in the state's population core might enjoy ready access to the gas; getting the Btus to more distant communities would take much more effort – and money.
Gas for Alaskans is a central goal of federal and state laws pertaining to any pipeline project.
State leaders have long...
The Alaska gas pipeline project got another life in the late 1990s as North Slope producers showed renewed interest in tackling the job.
Oil production from the flagship Prudhoe Bay field had plunged about 50 percent since its peak a decade earlier. With Prudhoe fading, perhaps the time was near for marketing the megafield's natural gas, which largely had been reinjected for 20 years to push more oil from the reservoir. But there was still that pesky...
A new project pushed by a new company, Yukon Pacific Corp., revived interest in an Alaska gas pipeline in 1983.
Yukon Pacific was born amid doubts among some Alaskans that the Alaskan Northwest project through Canada would ever break ground – and over their dismay that the El Paso LNG project to California got jettisoned in favor of Alaskan Northwest in 1977.
The first seeds of Yukon Pacific were planted...
The 40-year-long epic quest to build an Alaska natural gas pipeline started with a battle royal in the mid-1970s.
The pipeline project would be one of the largest privately financed ventures ever, if the swirl of forces in motion could settle on a single project, and if that project could deliver gas to the U.S. Lower 48 states at a competitive price.
The cast of characters included major oil companies, competing coalitions of pipeline...
The proposed multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline into Canada would be buried for almost its entire 803-mile length within Alaska with only a few exceptions, including where it bridges earthquake faults.
At potentially active earthquake faults, the line likely will be raised above the ground and supported on crossbeams to let the pipe slide sideways or hop up and down without breaking during a tremor, according to the sponsor of the proposed $32 billion to $41 billion project to...
Building a major pipeline to carry stranded North Slope natural gas to market would boost the number of jobs and wealth in Alaska. But the impact would be muted compared to the economic upheaval from building the trans-Alaska oil pipeline 35 years ago.
That's a key conclusion of a draft economic analysis, prepared by the gas line...
This month, a small team of federal officials will visit a handful of Alaska villages to discuss with local tribal leaders the proposed multibillion-dollar gas pipeline project – one government to another.
The meetings – or consultations, as they're called – stem from an 18-year-old presidential mandate for federal agencies to engage Native American tribes, and to listen and consider their concerns before taking actions that affect the tribes.
...REVISED Jan. 17, 2012 - A multimillion-dollar effort is moving ahead to understand how the proposed Alaska gas pipeline project would change the physical, economic, social and cultural environments along the line's path through the state.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is leading the environmental review of the $32 billion to $41 billion project that would pipe 4.5 billion cubic feet...
About 15 years ago, a group of exasperated Alberta business executives conceived a natural gas pipeline idea so radical that it shook up the old order in Western Canada's energy business and still reverberates today.
The group comprised Alberta and British Columbia natural gas producers.
Simply put, they wanted to make more money. They believed the price they were getting for their gas at the wellhead was too low. There wasn't enough pipeline capacity to move the...
Most of TransCanada/ExxonMobil's proposed 1,717-mile natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope would be built in Canada, where it faces government scrutiny remarkably similar to the oversight under way in the United States.
Canadian government agencies – federal, provincial and territorial – still must issue final approvals for the pipeline project.
They are empowered to ensure the pipeline is designed, constructed and operated safely.
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