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Article: Fuel for the future.(North Slope, Alaska's natural gas)
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- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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The North Slope houses the nation's most bountiful supply of natural gas, which could one day fuel Alaska's economy. But accessing it is a challenge.
The largest deposit of natural gas in the United States lies under the North Slope. For the past 20 years, corporations have tried to find a way to tap that resource and export it to markets in the Lower 48 and the Far East, but without success.
Why hasn't it worked? To put it simply, no one has found an economic way to get the natural gas to the marketplace.
A state study of one proposed project, which included a gas conditioning plant on the North Slope, a pipeline to a terminal with a liquefied ...