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Importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) by the winter of 2014-2015 is the only sure way to ensure adequate gas supplies for Southcentral, AK, Enstar Natural Gas CEO Colleen Starring told an Anchorage audience last week.

Importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) by the winter of 2014-2015 is the only sure way to ensure adequate gas supplies for Southcentral, AK, Enstar Natural Gas CEO Colleen Starring told an Anchorage audience Monday.

Total Gas & Power Ltd. has signed a deal to sell to South Korea’s Korea Gas Corp. (Kogas) 0.7 million metric tons per year of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for 20 years from Cheniere Energy Partners LP’s Sabine Pass Liquefaction LNG export terminal in Louisiana. The LNG would be lifted following startup of the terminal’s third train, which is scheduled for commissioning in 2017, Total said.

Two and a half million gallons sounds like a lot of water, and producers can use that much and more to stimulate a well with hydraulic fracturing (fracking), but other uses consume a lot more, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson told an audience on the Council on Foreign Relations Wednesday.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) pitched the U.S. ambassadors of Japan and South Korea on the benefits of importing natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope during a dinner at the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Washington, DC.

In North America, development of liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure is a bit like the weather: wait a while and it will change. An industry once intent on importing LNG to the United States five years later is equally enthusiastic about exporting LNG from North America.

In North America, development of liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure is a bit like the weather: wait a while and it will change. An industry once intent on importing LNG to the United States five years later is equally enthusiastic about exporting LNG from North America.

With U.S. natural gas supplies surging, a Des Moines, IA, automobile entrepreneur says he is only a few months away from importing and converting a Chinese-made passenger car, the Noble, to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

With U.S. natural gas supplies surging, a Des Moines, IA, automobile entrepreneur says he is only a few months away from importing and converting a Chinese-made passenger car, the Noble, to run on compressed natural gas (CNG) in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.