Alaska LNG files progress update

Alaska LNG has filed its monthly progress report to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the period 1 – 30 April 2016.

Alaska LNG confirmed that the schedule for submittal of the final application for the LNG project is expected to be a minimum of 3 months beyond the original scheduled date of September 2016, due to ongoing pre-Front End Engineering and Design (pre-FEED) and engineering optimisation work.

The Alaska LNG Project will include a natural gas liquefaction plant and storage facilities, as well as an export terminal at Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula. The project will consist of an 800-mile gas pipeline from southcentral Alaska to the North Slope, a gas treatment plant, and transmission lines connecting the project to gas producing fields.

The LNG project is expected to produce and export up to 20 million tpy of LNG.

Edited from press release by Callum O'Reilly

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