Officials: In-state gas line is still a priority
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Gov. Sean Parnell and other state leaders have continued optimism a huge pipeline can one day carry North Slope natural gas south through Canada, the adviser, Gene Therriault, said Sunday.
The state also has been studying the prospect of a shorter-term, in-state “bullet” pipeline connecting northern Alaska gas fields to southern population centers. Therriault said while state officials agree the first scenario would mean cheaper distributed gas and more revenue to the state, studies on the so-called bullet line are important to avoid gambling the state’s energy future on a large pipeline proposal that lacks firm construction schedules.
“The governor just thinks it’s prudent to have the information on alternatives,” Therriault said by phone.
Therriault’s comments come days after Harry Noah, the analyst coordinating Parnell’s bullet line study, said he’d resign later this winter. Questions continue about whether a multibillion-dollar bullet line is practical — whether gas piped through such a line could be sold at a price comparable to supplies coming from Cook Inlet.
Many lawmakers and industry watchers continue to push for the bullet line. Former Gov. Frank Murkowski said last week the state must stress studies of the bullet line as changes in the international energy market have strangled prospects for a larger pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope into Canada.
Therriault said engineers studying the bullet line could need four to six months to answer questions. Noah’s team already has drafted funding requests for extending the study into next year, requests Therriault noted come a month before Parnell plans to present a budget to state lawmakers.
There's 210miles of this 2"ID SDR7 polypipe [thickwalled 1800psi burst rating].. this is enough pipe to pass 100gpm of propane from PS4-Galbraith to PS6-YukonRiver... this mini-gasline would pass a very important trickle of propane all along the haulroad ROW supplying much needed energy for any subsequent activity in the area, such as building the next 5bcfd cryogenic-gasline to Valdez/Kenai.
What's the cost of this little propane-line??? The pipe can be purchased for $500k, the whole installed package can be done for $2mil... and it can be pumping propane before spring breakup.
We should give all of the AK Forrest Gumps a section of Mental Health Trust Land and tell them all to go fend for themselves on that chunk of land and go leave the rest of us alone.
Alaskan politics is just like a box of chocolates????????????
...in blue letters below this box the Noseminer Webmaster is asking me if I'm human --->
I've thrown bricks thru televisions before for insults like that....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ELleCQvew
So it would appear.
Just get Enstar to begin by running an Orange gas hose down the corridor to heat Coldfoot, then Livengood, then Fox, then Ester, and Nenana.
They got Wasilla hooked up in a year.
Skip Fairbanks as it's owned by Usibelli, GVEA, and that North Pole Refinery Family.
They don't want any gas.
Mr. Therrialts only job is to keep Gas out of competing with the Republican big shots.
They don't want to put these guys out of business.
Nenana needs cheap gas now.
You are a distant idiot!! Stay where u are we don't need you at all. The Alaskan Prayer has been a bumper sticker hanging in the BOATEL Bar for over 20 years drinkers not eveangelicals you fool
Alaska's North Slope is one of the largest proven natural gas reserves in the United States only a couple hundred miles ..
And what do the politicians and bureaucrats want to do? Study it some more!!!
The only thing I want to see chiseled in stone is the words, YOU ARE FIRED addressed to the Legislature and Governor, if they do not have that "bullet line" laying pipe by the spring of 2010.
Question: what will Alaska's budget do, when the oil companies start drilling on federal land instead of Alaska state owned land?
"""Therriault said engineers studying the bullet line could need four to six weeks to answer questions"""
While Gene is busy studying steel-bullets, he won't ever know about the cryogenic bullet that hits him in the back of the head when he' getting a hernia picking up his benefits package.
Alaska has become Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels
...anyone ??
or, is it self-inflicted stupidity ???
The Alaskan Prayer !
" Dear God, Please grant us just one more pipeline, and we promise not to piss it all away this time" !
Evangelicals don't build pipelines..
Pipeliners build pipelines.
If my old pickup truck is broken down and needs fixin'...
...I don't read the BIBLE first, I read the Chilton's/Clymer/Hanes manual on how to repair it.
If grandmas is on her deathbed, then I read the Bible.
Is all of Alaska managed by a bunch of Forrest Gumps ?????????
AGIA wants to use technology limited to the 1950's.
http://oilsandstruth.org/
And the supporters of AGIA want to ship all of Alaska's gas to the Tarpits of Alberta. This is the biggest environmental disaster in North America.
Our grandkids will call AGIA the WPPSS of Alaska.
Botched understanding of megaproject technology is a profound embarrassment we will need to explain to our children.
This is the 21stCentury, not the 12thCentury...
Why be stuck on stupid gullible???
[what is REALLY going on in Pipelinistan??]
Yes, it's possible for Alaskans to build the All Alaskan Gasline to Valdez [and CookInlet] using technology tested and proven since the 1980's.
Yes, Alaskans can build a -270F CRYOGENIC PIPELINE from Deadhorse to Valdez [and Kenai too]
http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk209/DistantThunderbolt/?action=view¤t=CryogenicGasline1.jpg
Using Trenchless Technology we can bore 48" tunnels through permafrost soils in 5mile sections quickly and easily.. this will move the minimal amount of soils, and disturb Alaskan Wilderness the least possible. Very little open trenching and extra unnecessary road building required.
[In Alaska,how many million tons of gravel have already been moved twice or three times, 4 and 5 times? mindlessly using state-money for moving megatons of gravel around in circles, typically a braindamaged Alaskan thing performed by old veterans with shell-shock and brown-bottle flu]
Using properly selected technology is the best way to accomplish COST CONTAINMENT and responsible financial management.
A Cryogenic Pipeline can be built for much less cost than a big steel megapipeline.
...the total weight of all of the equipment and material to construct a cryopipe is much less than a steel megawhopper.
The total industrial footprint from A-to-Z is much less when building a 5bcfd cryogenic pipeline.
Alaskans do not need WallStreet LasVegas style financing for building our All Alaska Gas Industry... we already have all of the financial capital required... our capital is propane-&-gold, it's far superior to donutdollars.
...or is Alaska so completely paralyzed and riddled with scammers and organized-crime that it can't even fumble it's way out of the TradingPost without getting laughed at..??
We also need to legalize industrial hemp and have a hemp farm in every community to grow and manufacture our own fuel. The population of Alaska isn't that large. We could grow our own fuel with hemp and algae. We don't have to be slaves to big oil.
What ever happend with all the TALK about a dam? Big oil and coal shut your mouth? How much studys will it take to prove that water will always flow down hill?? A real tough one ...
" Dear God, Please grant us just one more pipeline, and we promise not to piss it all away this time" !