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Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has proposed a $355 million package intended to speed construction of a natural gas liquefaction plant on the state’s North Slope and a gas distribution system in the Fairbanks area. The projects are intended to be a bridge until the time when the state can complete an in-state gasline to carry North Slope gas.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell on Monday met with Korea Gas Corp. (Kogas) CEO Kangsoo Choo in Juneau to talk up the idea of exporting liquefied Alaska natural gas to Asian markets. The meeting was a follow-up to when the two met in September and other talks between Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan and other Kogas officials.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday proposed a $355 million package intended to speed construction of a natural gas liquefaction plant on the state’s North Slope and a gas distribution system in the Fairbanks area. The projects are intended to be a bridge until the time when the state can complete an in-state gasline to carry North Slope gas.

The decades-long, stop-and-start effort to commercialize Alaska North Slope natural gas has “fully shifted” to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, Gov. Sean Parnell said last Wednesday after receiving an update from the producer trio and pipeline company collaborating on a project, which they said could cost $65 billion or more.

The decades-long, stop-and-start effort to commercialize Alaska North Slope natural gas has “fully shifted” to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, Gov. Sean Parnell said Wednesday after receiving an update from the producer trio and pipeline company collaborating on a project, which they said could cost $65 billion or more.

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell is on a trade mission to talk up exports of liquefied Alaskan gas to Asian markets. Parnell is slated to meet with Japanese and South Korean officials and business leaders over the coming days. The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry arranged a meeting of Parnell and executives from companies such as Samsung C&T, STX Energy, Daesung Industrial Co. Ltd., Korea Midland Power Co., GS Global Co., LG International Corp., Hyundai Heavy Industries and Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co. Ltd. Parnell recently met with the CEO of Kogas to discuss Alaska’s role as an LNG exporter and the state’s desire to boost exports with an in-state gas pipeline. Alaska’s major oil and gas producers and TC-Alaska are working with the Alaska Pipeline Project on the commercialization of North Slope gas with a specific focus on a large-scale liquefied natural gas project in Southcentral Alaska (see Daily GPI, July 31).

She was blamed by many for breaking up The Beatles, and what John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono and his son Sean Lennon are trying to do to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) won’t endear her to oil and gas producers either.

In an effort to get exploration and production in the Point Thomson Field on the North Slope in Alaska off and running after years of permitting delays, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell earlier this month reached out to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to exercise his authority to expedite the Record of Decision (ROD) on the project, citing the risk to Alaskan and American jobs if delays continue.

In an effort to get exploration and production in the Point Thomson Field on the North Slope in Alaska off and running after years of permitting delays, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell this past weekend reached out to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to exercise his authority to expedite the Record of Decision (ROD) on the project, citing the risk to Alaskan and American jobs if delays continue.