Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline Project: circa 1980
The Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline is the largest privately financed and privately built project ever planned. Including the gas gathering system and the conditioning plant required on the North Slope of Alaska, the estimated cost is in the neighborhood of $20 to $25 billion and that is quite an exclusive neighborhood. The purpose of the line is to carry American gas located on the North Slope of Alaska to American markets in the US West and Midwest. There are those who suggest that the development of large surpluses of gas in Alberta, or the availability of gas from Mexico, could make the Alaska line redundant. Alberta gas is not US gas, Mexican gas is not US gas. The more than 25 TCF of natural gas presently at Prudhoe Bay, and any other Alaskan reserves established in the future, is US domestic gas. These reserves are capable of meeting 5% of the energy needs of the US and will find a home in the US since, despite pressures to conserve, the US will continue to have an insatiable appetite for energy with perhaps a one-third increase in daily demand in the short span of the next decade.
- OSTI ID:
- 6286974
- Journal Information:
- Nat. AICHE Fuels and Petrochem. Div. Mtg.; (United States), Journal Name: Nat. AICHE Fuels and Petrochem. Div. Mtg.; (United States) Vol. 1:7B
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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