$12 Billion Gas Plant is One-Third of Alaska Pipeline Project

A new report released by the Office of the Federal Coordinator describes the massive gas treatment plant which would be required as part of the Alaska Natural Gas pipeline project. The plant, which is estimated to cost $12 billion of the estimated $30 to $40 billion project, would prepare 4.5 billion cubic feet of North Slope natural gas each day for shipment through the pipeline.

Construction of the plant is estimated to require a workforce of 3,000, with sealifts over several years to ship 95 modules weighing a total of 270,000 tons to the North Slope.

North Slope natural gas contains more carbon dioxide than the market allows. The gas treatment plant would reduce the carbon dioxide content from about 12 percent to less than 2 percent of the gas. The plant would also remove other impurities from the gas, then chill the gas to 30 degrees and pressurize it for shipment.

For more information about the proposed gas treatment plant, click here for the complete report.

Comments

[ChillyinAlaska]

What a crock of CR*P. Man is NOT the cause of the non existent global warming. There is no scientific FACTS to support this hypothesis, and CO2 is NOT a problem or POLLUTANT. What a outrageous waste of money to combat a non existent problem.

[Anna von Reitz]

We need to face the music that has been playing for four years regarding a pipeline to Canada. There is no reason on earth to pursue that, when both the Canadians and our American counterparts in the Lower 48 are shipping their excess gas overseas as LNG. When are you all going to wake up and realize that both AGIA to Canada and the Denali Pipeline are nothing but huge, expensive rip offs for Alaska--at best. At worst, they are just fanciful time wasters designed to keep us talking while the rest of the world is walking.