Thursday, July 3, 2014

Alaska Gasline Work Underway

That's what the press release says, but I have haven't heard of any contract awards etc,

To put this news in P3 schedule terms "We'll take and actual start on this activity"

LINK

Press Release:

July 2, 2014, Juneau, Alaska – Citing significant progress on an Alaska gasline that gets Alaska’s gas to Alaskans and markets beyond, Governor Sean Parnell welcomed news that a formal commercial agreement has been signed between the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC), BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and TransCanada to advance the Alaska LNG Project.
“Environmental and pipeline engineering fieldwork has officially begun,” Governor Parnell said. “I am pleased all parties continue to make progress on building an Alaska gasline project that will create thousands of Alaska jobs and fuel Alaska homes and businesses. This milestone marks the historic progress we have made on a gasline. Our way forward will continue to be on Alaska’s terms and in Alaskans’ interests.”
The Alaska LNG Project has fully entered the Pre-Front End Engineering and Design (Pre-FEED) phase – a milestone no previous Alaska gasline project has achieved. During the Pre-FEED phase, the producer parties will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on design and engineering of the project. In the coming weeks, the project will begin to work to secure an export license with the Department of Energy and continue permitting work with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Each producer party, in addition to the state, will begin to engage the LNG sales market during this phase.


3 comments:

Everett Estes Ford said...

Good news but are they really going to ship LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) that will have to cool the pipes for maybe hundreds of miles?

brucedoe

Everett Estes Ford said...

Good news but are they really going to ship LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) that will have to cool the pipes for maybe hundreds of miles?

brucedoe

AK Engineer said...

The gas will be chilled to keep the large pipeline below 32F. That's done to keep the soils frozen. The LNG plant is at the end of the long pipeline. The super cold LNG is stored in insulated tanks and only piped a short distance to the LNG ships. Cooling the gas and making LNG benefit from the cold environment.