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Moving Alaska Gas from Canada to the Lower 48
What would happen to Alaska's natural gas once it reaches the end of the proposed pipeline, 1,700 miles from Prudhoe Bay? The gas would flow into a vast network of Canadian and... -
Pipeline Project Would get Multimillion-Dollar Environmental Review
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... -
LNG Market Grows but Uncertainties Persist
Driving much of the discussion at a liquefied natural gas conference in London were two relatively recent events that have rattled how the global LNG industry views its short-... -
Pipeline Agency Starts Consultation with Alaska Natives
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... -
Gas Pipeline Builder Plans Precautions for Spanning Earthquake Zones
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... -
Crossing Borders The Approvals Needed to Move Alaska Gas Through Canada
No Alaska natural gas can physically cross the border into Canada without a handful of government agencies - in the United States and Canada - blessing the event. But getting... -
New Imaging Gives Close-up Look at Gas Pipeline Corridors
During late spring 2011, two small airplanes flew dozens of sorties over key transportation corridors bisecting Alaska. Seated in the back of each plane was a technician, surely... -
Canada Takes Different Approach for Pipeline
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... -
Pipeline Report Gas Plant Totals One-third of Project Cost
About one-third of the Alaska gas pipeline project cost has little to do with physically burying steel pipe along hundreds of miles of the northern continent. Instead, this... -
Point Thomson Key Gas Field that’s Challenging to Produce
The Point Thomson gas field is like the kid who has all the potential to be a great adult, if he can just learn to control his erratic behavior. Among Alaska's natural gas crown... -
Mileage-based Tariff Benefits Alaskans
Alaskans who draw North Slope natural gas from the proposed large-volume pipeline would pay only a tiny fraction of the multibillion-dollar project's construction and operating... -
Precedent Agreements A Delicate Dance Between Builders and Shippers
The proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline projects are engaged in the "precedent agreement" phase of development. A pipeline developer that has signed enough precedent agreements... -
Advancing Oil Spill Response in Ice Covered Waters
Goals & Objectives The objective of this project is to identify programs and research and development projects that improve the ability of responders to deal with accidental... -
Federal Loan Guarantee Helps Pipelines Finances
A federal loan guarantee authorized for the Alaska gas pipeline is intended to help smooth the path forward for what could be the world's most expensive private project ever.... -
Can Gas-to-Liquids Technology get Traction
The plunge of U.S. natural gas prices since 2010 has undermined the coal industry, roused the nation's petrochemical companies and begun transforming the power-generation... -
Guide to Alaska Natural Gas Projects
The great North Slope oil discoveries of the 1960s and 1970s found an estimated 35 trillion cubic feet of natural gas one and a half times the entire volume of U.S. production... -
Pipeline Route is Probed to Detail Environmental Impacts
Squads of scientists this summer have joined the caribou and Dall sheep, eiders and eagles, moose and muskrat, salmon and grayling that inhabit the proposed natural gas pipeline... -
Gas Pipeline Project Would Boost Alaska Economy but Less than 1970s Oil Line
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...