Four energy companies and the State of Alaska today announced they had applied to U.S. regulators to export natural gas from the proposed Alaska LNG facility. The proposed facility would include a liquefaction plant and terminal on the Kenai Peninsula, an 800-mile pipeline, eight compression stations, at least five take-off points for in-state gas delivery and a North Slope gas treatment plant. The project is expected to be complete in 2016. Alaska LNG is expected to create 15,000 construction jobs and 1,000 operation jobs.
The Department of Energy has thus far approved LNG export applications for six facilities. The Alaska LNG project participants are the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., TransCanada, BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil.
