AGPA Files with DOE to Export LNG from Valdez, Alaska

Alaska Gasline Port Authority (AGPA) filed an application with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to export up to 19 mtpa of LNG to FTA countries along the Asian- Pacific Rim.

AGPA said in a application that it requests long-term, multi-contract authorization to engage in exports of domestically produced LNG over a twenty-five year term commencing on the date of the first LNG export or 8 years from the date that the authorization is issued.

AGPA proposes to export LNG from a future LNG terminal to be located in Valdez, Alaska, to any country which has or in the future develops the capacity to import LNG via ocean-going carriers and with which the United States has, or in the future enters into, a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) requiring the national treatment for trade in natural gas.

Alaska Gasline Port Authority also said that it  has received significant interest from the market in this LNG export project.

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LNG World News Staff, July 17, 2012; Image: www.ci.valdez.ak.us