http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/08/27/natural-gas-the-key-u-s-energy-source-for-the-next-decade/
Essentially validating my view that the current low natural gas price will merely serve to stimulate demand...
Friday, August 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Over the top really IS "over the top"
http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnads/49058072.shtml
Great piece on why the "over the top" option really isn't an option.
What's "over the top"? The concept of taking a gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay over the top of the Yukon Territory, to link up with a pipe to run south from the Mackenzie Delta. Great idea, right? Kills two birds with one stone.
Except... TCPL CEO Hal Kvisle outlines the reasons succinctly: 1. Can't go through ANWR (Alaska) and Vuntut National Park (Yukon) 2. Expensive and challenging to route the pipe offshore to avoid (1). 3. Alaska Gas will fill the pipe completely, and some would have to be backed out to leave room for Delta gas. 4. This option doesn't send ANY gas at all into mainland Alaska.
The whole idea of having to "back out" Alaska gas might be the big roadblock to the old Dempster Lateral idea, too. Under that proposal (which the last time I checked could still be seen on the Yukon Government's Oil and Gas website), the pipeline from the Mackenzie Delta would run down the Dempster Highway into the Yukon instead of heading down along the river. The NWT isn't crazy about that one, either...
Great piece on why the "over the top" option really isn't an option.
What's "over the top"? The concept of taking a gas pipeline from Prudhoe Bay over the top of the Yukon Territory, to link up with a pipe to run south from the Mackenzie Delta. Great idea, right? Kills two birds with one stone.
Except... TCPL CEO Hal Kvisle outlines the reasons succinctly: 1. Can't go through ANWR (Alaska) and Vuntut National Park (Yukon) 2. Expensive and challenging to route the pipe offshore to avoid (1). 3. Alaska Gas will fill the pipe completely, and some would have to be backed out to leave room for Delta gas. 4. This option doesn't send ANY gas at all into mainland Alaska.
The whole idea of having to "back out" Alaska gas might be the big roadblock to the old Dempster Lateral idea, too. Under that proposal (which the last time I checked could still be seen on the Yukon Government's Oil and Gas website), the pipeline from the Mackenzie Delta would run down the Dempster Highway into the Yukon instead of heading down along the river. The NWT isn't crazy about that one, either...
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