Small-scale scheme gives Alaska LNG a boost
Alaska’s Kenai LNG plant. The small-scale Alaska-Japan LNG scheme is aiming for a 2017 FID. (ConocoPhillips)
The state of Alaska is working closely with Japan to start exporting new long-term shipments of LNG to the world’s biggest buyer in 2021.
A small-scale scheme, called Alaska-Japan LNG, which could start delivering 1 mtpa to the west coast of Japan as early as 2021, will act as a springboard for plans for the much larger 20 mtpa Alaska LNG complex, Mary Ann Pease, vice president of Resources Energy, which is backed by a major Osaka-based LPG company promoting the smaller development, told Interfax Natural Gas Daily on the sidelines of CWC’s Asia Pacific LNG Summit in Singapore this week.