The Alaska LNG Project submitted a formal request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to begin the pre-filing process for the project. The milestone allows for the environmental review required for siting, design and permitting for construction of the proposed project.
The pre-filing process is supported by a second season of summer field work, which makes up part of the project’s $500 million pre-FEED phase. The main purpose of the field work was to collect necessary data to support the environmental permitting for the project and to support the routing and siting of project facilities.
Participants in the project are the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. and affiliates of ExxonMobil Corp., TransCanada Corp., BP Plc and ConocoPhillips. An LNG export license application was submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy in July.
The planned Alaska LNG project facilities consist of a liquefaction facility in the Nikiski area of the Kenai Peninsula, up to eight compression stations, an 800-mile, large diameter pipeline, at least five offtake points for gas delivery in Alaska, a gas treatment plant on the North Slope and transmission lines to transport gas from Prudhoe Bay and Point Thomson to the gas treatment plant.