The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for the planned Alaska LNG project.
According to the FERC filing, the notice opens of the scoping process the Commission and its cooperating agencies will use to gather input from the public and interested agencies on the project. The scoping period will remain open for an extended period, closing on December 4, 2015.
The applicants, Alaska Gasline Development Corporation; BP Alaska LNG; Conoco Phillips Alaska LNG; ExxonMobil Alaska LNG; and TransCanada Alaska Midstream plan to develop, construct, and operate facilities that would commercialize the natural gas resources on Alaska’s North Slope. The liquefaction plant in Nikiski would have three trains with 20 mtpa of LNG capacity and three 160,000 cbm storage tanks.
The construction is expected to start in 2018 or early 2019 with the project expected to be in service about 2025-2026.
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LNG World News Staff; Image: Alaska LNG