Alaska LNG project partners have submitted a formal request to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to start the prefile process for the major natural gas project. The FERC prefile milestone sets the stage for activity associated with the environmental review required for the siting, design, and permitting for construction of the proposed project.
A second season of summer field work set for 2015, part of the project’s $500 million pre-FEED phase, supports the prefiling process. This year’s summer field work, done primarily to collect data to support environmental permitting and project routing and siting, is almost complete. The majority of the work focused on the pipeline route from Livengood, Ala., to the proposed LNG liquefaction site in Nikiski, Ala.
The Alaska LNG project includes a liquefaction plant in the Nikiski area on the Kenai Peninsula, an 800-mile, large-diameter pipeline, up to eight compression stations, at least five offtake points for in-state gas delivery, a gas treatment plant on the North Slope, and pipelines to transport gas from Prudhoe Bay and Point Thomson to the gas treatment plant.
Project participants are the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. and affiliates of ExxonMobil Corp., TransCanada Corp., BP PLC, and ConocoPhillips. Participants in July filed an application to the US Department of Energy for the project’s LNG export license (OGJ Online, July 21, 2014).