Articles tagged Cook Inlet

Alaska’s utility and pipeline regulator supported LNG imports as a “public necessity” as the state’s largest natural gas service provider progresses plans to stave off an expected supply shortfall.

Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) aims to build an 800-mile natural gas pipeline for the Alaska LNG project before progressing the terminal as it balances its dual goals of increasing in-state gas supply and completing the export project.

The state of Alaska and Pantheon Resources plc are negotiating a deal to boost in-state natural gas inventories using a proposed LNG feed gas pipeline to transport associated volumes from the North Slope.

An auction to offer some offshore oil and natural gas leases is planned at the end of this month for Alaska’s Cook Inlet. 

Depressed commodity prices have prompted Houston-based Apache Corp. to pull up stakes in Alaska, giving up on its operations in the Cook Inlet.