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Article: Key players bullish on pipeline to bring Alaska gas to Lower 48.
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- Natural Gas Week
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- November 25, 2002
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Gas from Alaska and northern Canada will play a key role in meeting future North American demand, and the pipelines needed to carry it to market will likely be built over the next 10 years, according to speakers at a recent conference in Houston.
A pipeline from Canada's Mackenzie Delta area is expected to move ahead first--with gas starting to flow some time between 2007 and 2009--while an Alaskan pipeline could be online by late-2011, participants at the Arctic Gas Symposium heard.
"We see a complementary schedule," said John Carruthers, BP's program manager for Alaska gas. "We see Mackenzie going first with Alaska naturally following," he told the ...