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Article: LNG and GTL gas extraction: two types of technologies are being considered for natural gas extraction on the North Slope.(liquefied natural gas and gas-to-liquids technologies)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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Two types of technologies are being considered natural gas extraction on the North Slope.
Liquefied natural gas, a long-established technology in the energy industry, is a transportation method used worldwide to move that product to market.
Gas-to-liquids, also described as white crude, is emerging as an alternative to LNG in the energy sector, although no one has yet come up with an economic method of using this form of natural gas in a commercial-sized project.
Alaska's oil giants, who are sitting on one of the world's largest-known pockets of natural gas, are considering both technologies in their research effort to tap that North Slope ...