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Article: Fairbanks natural gas plans North Slope facility: as Cook Inlet supplies dwindle, Fairbanks taps into the North Slope.
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Given the lack of development of alternative natural gas supplies in the Interior and the dwindling supply of Cook Inlet gas causing availability issues and price increases, Fairbanks Natural Gas is eyeing vast supplies of North Slope gas as its future feedstock.
The Fairbanks-based gas supplier, which currently buys Cook Inlet gas and trucks it north to the Interior for use by its 900-plus customer base, is making plans to develop a liquefied natural gas facility on the North Slope.
"We will build a new facility to tap the abundant long-term gas supply and begin trucking the supply from the North Slope rather than Cook Inlet," said Dan Britton, ...