| From: Snowshoe | 3/3/2012 3:12:14 PM | | | | | | Does Japan want Alaska's North Slope natural gas?
alaskadispatch.com
A group of Japanese officials have been in Anchorage to discuss sending liquefied natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to Japan.
Some accounts say that the Japanese are interested in building part, or even the entire, big pipeline that would take gas from the the Arctic oil fields to tidewater, but that couldn't be confirmed. |
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| From: Snowshoe | 3/30/2012 6:07:47 AM | | | | | | Maybe, maybe...
Oil companies on track to meet gas line deadline, exec says -
Plan is to have BP, Conoco Phillips and Exxon work together.
adn.com
In January, Gov. Sean Parnell set a March 31 deadline for alignment of the parties under "an Alaska Gasline Inducement Act framework," a deadline that he has said was born of his frustration with the lack of progress on a line. He said alignment must include work on a large-diameter liquefied natural gas pipeline to tidewater that would allow for overseas exports.
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Litigation over disputed leases in the Point Thomson gas fields also must be resolved. The leases are seen as key to a major gas line project. Parnell had wanted resolution last month, but instead arguments were held before the Alaska Supreme Court on the case. Minge said he thinks a settlement is close. |
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| To: Snowshoe who wrote (552) | 3/30/2012 6:11:04 AM | | From: Snowshoe | | | | Progress ...
Court to drop Point Thomson review
adn.com
The timing is important: Gov. Sean Parnell set an end-of-quarter deadline for the North Slope's major players -- Exxon Mobil, BP and ConocoPhillips -- to coalesce behind a major natural gas pipeline project. One of the big obstacles to that happening was settlement in the long-running Point Thomson lease case. The leases are seen as critical to the fortunes of a gas pipeline long sought in Alaska. |
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| From: Snowshoe | 3/30/2012 6:16:02 AM | | | | | | LNG to Asia...
Oil Majors In Talks On $40B Alaska Gas Pipeline
ibtimes.com
Alaska could soon have a pipeline linking the state's liquefied natural gas to Asian markets.
U.K.-based BP PLC (NYSE: BP), along with U.S. majors Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) and ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), is in discussions to build a $40 billion pipeline to carry natural gas from the North Slope to Alaska's southern coast, according to reports. From there the gas could be shipped to markets in China, the Financial Times reported.
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| To: Snowshoe who wrote (554) | 3/30/2012 6:21:11 AM | | From: Snowshoe | | | | Japan's nuke fiasco re-arranged the playing field...
Alaska champions $40bn pipeline plan
www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/448b66c6-7343-11e1-aab3-00144feab49a.html
A (Point Thomson) settlement would clear the way for the companies to hasten their commercial assessment of a large gas pipeline to Alaska’s southern coast, from where LNG could be shipped to China and other Asian countries. |
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| From: Snowshoe | 6/22/2013 6:36:25 PM | | | | | | Alaska LNG project companies miss Parnell's deadline
alaskadispatch.com
The project may face plenty of competition. Liquefied gas projects are under construction around the world, including several in Australia as well as one in Louisiana and Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, more than 30 additional LNG projects are being considered around the world, with more than a dozen proposed in the Lower 48, piquing fears that the Alaska project will be deemed uneconomic by the time the studies are done. |
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| From: Snowshoe | 8/15/2013 12:09:58 PM | | | | | | Alaska LNG could prove just the right fit for Asian markets
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Bill White
August 14, 2013
Alaska North Slope gas exported to Asia could hold a key attraction over other U.S. LNG exports: The Alaska gas would burn hotter.
To adopt the gas industry's jargon, Alaska's liquefied natural gas would be somewhat "wet" or "rich" compared with the "dry" or "lean" gas other U.S. liquefaction plants will process into LNG.
And many Asian buyers love wet gas -- which is laced with gas liquids that raise the heat content. Especially in key markets such as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, power-plant turbines, industrial furnaces and household appliances are calibrated to burn rich gas.
A gas-fueled kitchen stove built for a Japanese home could not be used in the United States without modification, and vice versa.
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As the gas industry expanded by pipeline and by LNG tanker, different regional systems developed in isolation from one another, sort of how different languages emerged around the world. Each new gas system was a unit unto itself, based on the quality of local or regional gas supplies. In industrialized North America, dry gas was amply available, so that's what is piped to U.S. furnaces. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan built their systems on the wet-gas LNG blends from nearby Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.
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For starters, let's put some numbers on the table to help explain wet gas vs. dry gas:
• 1.01 million British thermal units, or Btu -- This is the heat content of 1,000 cubic feet of methane, a standard measure of methane. Energy content is reported in Btus so that different fuels -- gas, oil, coal -- can be compared. Natural gas usually is priced in units of 1 million Btu.
• 1.022 million Btu -- The average heat content per thousand cubic feet of U.S. pipeline gas, the gas that goes to power plants and home furnaces. This pipeline gas is almost pure methane.
• 1.06 to 1.13 million Btu -- The heat content that Japanese and South Korean utilities expect from the gas they burn. (Some sources will show different ranges based on different assumptions about the temperature and pressure of the gas. The range given here serves to show that Japan and Korea use a higher-Btu gas than found in pure methane or U.S. pipeline gas.)
Liquefied North Slope Alaska gas should fall within the Btu window of Japan and Korea, with likely a minimum of about 1.07 million Btu of energy per thousand cubic feet. Certain decisions by the gas producers, their customers and others could push this Btu number higher.
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