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Article: A pipe dream: the debate continues on the gasline to mid-America. Proponents say construction could begin as early as 2008.(natural gas reserves on Alaska's North Slope)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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Thirty-five trillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves lie stranded on Alaska's North Slope. There's possibly a lot more--geologists think there could be 100 trillion cubic feet, or even more. The gas is stranded because there is no way to bring it to market.
For more than 30 years, the petroleum industry and Alaskans have worked on different ideas for gas transportation systems. They've tinkered with exotic notions like gas-tilled blimps and submarine tankers carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG for short), but the main focus has been on conventional technologies, a long-distance pipeline to the Lower 48 or a pipeline across Alaska to a gas liquefaction ...