Fairbanks Natural Gas seeks approval in new trucking plan

According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner's Dermot Cole, another plan to truck natural gas from the North Slope to Fairbanks is looking to gain momentum. The effort, led by Fairbanks Natural Gas, hopes to secure expedited review of its Regulatory Commission of Alaska application to begin building an almost 4-mile, 11-inch pipeline from a point of supply to the site of a proposed natural gas liquefaction plant to provide product to ship south on tanker trucks. The FNG effort's timeline hopes to begin pipeline construction this winter, and hopes to have the trucks running by mid-2013, one year sooner than the other current trucking plan, a partnership between Golden Valley Electric Association and Flint Hills. The FNG effort doesn't have an anchor customer at this point, but the GVEA/Flint Hills plan does. Cole surmises that the two efforts may merge at some point, but notes that the two projects may have different standpoints on pricing. Read much, much more, here.