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Article: Alaska's Kenai LNG export plant seeking extension; change studied.
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- Natural Gas Week
- Article date:
- February 26, 2007
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The sole US LNG export facility--in Kenai, Alaska--may soon get a new lifeline, but if so it will be short and captive to political tensions surrounding the proposed pipeline to bring Alaska North Slope gas down to Canada and the lower 48 states. Unless some of that Alaska North Slope gas ends up being exported from Kenai, that is. But that's another story.
ConocoPhillips and Marathon, 70-30 partners in the Kenai project, applied this month to the US Department of Energy for a two-year extension to their LNG export license, which expires in 2009.
In those two years, it would--in theory--be business as usual at Kenai. The problem with that theory is that ...