September 2, 2010
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| Mar 16, 2010A dizzying list of former Alaska leaders is being rounded up to testify in favor of Sen. Lesil McGuire's bill shifting in-state natural gas plans from the administration to the fast track via the railroad.
Among those expected to weigh in by phone or in person on Thursday are former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens; former governors Bill Sheffield and Frank Murkowski; and former state senator and now railroad chairman John Binkley, McGuire confirmed.
This comes after Stevens surprised state politicians, pipeline watchers and media on Friday when he told Commonwealth North that Alaska should drop support for a large-diameter pipeline to Canada, as proposed under AGIA, and instead focus on an in-state line -- or rather, two lines. One would fuel gas to Valdez for export to Asia markets, while the other would feed Southcentral and the Railbelt, population centers looking for reliable energy.
The statements were a far cry from Stevens' previous support of a large-diameter pipeline.
His support goes way back. At his urging, Congress passed the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act in 2004, setting the stage for $18 billion in federal loan guarantees for a pipeline project, establishing the federal coordinator's role, and crafting special federal regulatory rules good only for an Alaska project.
McGuire said the list of people set to speak on behalf of her bill is an attempt to "raise the dialogue" about Alaska and its natural gas future. While not ready to suggest scrapping AGIA, McGuire said she tried unsuccessfully to talk former Gov. Sarah Palin out awarding the AGIA license to TransCanada (although earlier, McGuire and all but one other lawmaker had voted for AGIA), and now is trying to find a way forward for instate gas.
House Speaker Mike Chenault also has a bill in play that would move instate gas to the railroad's jurisdiction. His plan involves more agencies, and is pending before the House Finance Committee.
The hearing on McGuire's bill -- SB 287 -- is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18.
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Rena: Did you really suffer from dizziness trying to cope with a list of four names? Watch out for the adjectives, my dear.
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Here's a LNG gasline to Valdez/Kenai that can be built for less than $16billion.
99% of this gasline will be tunneled without disturbing any surface vegetation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA1wzNnfHY4
Gas-conditioning plants on FLNG's can be built for much cheaper than the cost estimates provided by previous studies bought by the legislature.
http://www.universal-vortex.com/
Hilsch-Ranque vortex-tubes can be mass produced in our precision stainless-steel foundry.
There are many different ways to repressurize gas-oil fields..
Klystron MASER's is a very effective method for oil conditioning and repressurization..
http://www.globalresourcecorp.com/recovery-applications/heavy-oil
Here's a LNG gasline to Valdez/Kenai that can be built for less than $16billion.
99% of this gasline will be tunneled without disturbing any surface vegetation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA1wzNnfHY4
Gas-conditioning plants on FLNG's can be built for much cheaper than the cost estimates provided by previous studies bought by the legislature.
http://www.universal-vortex.com/
Hilsch-Ranque vortex-tubes can be mass produced in our precision stainless-steel foundry.
There are many different ways to repressurize gas-oil fields..
Klystron MASER's is a very effective method for oil conditioning and repressurization..
http://www.globalresourcecorp.com/recovery-applications/heavy-oil
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If you listen to to stevens and crew thursday you may want keep the following in mind. Also remember there are 13 tcf to 27 tcf in Cook Inlet, DOE and DNR.
There are up to 20 LNG tankers available at any time for spot and short-term charters, Nemeth said. Plenty of gas looking for buyers and plenty of ships to move the gas makes it a buyers’ market. More than 150 new tankers were delivered from shipyards between 2006 and 2009, with 36 more on their way in 2010-2012, bringing the worldwide total close to 400 tankers.
companies made LNG investment decisions several years ago, based on projections that showed a tight market and high prices for gas. Final investment decisions were made on seven major LNG supply projects between 2006 and 2009, said Asish Mohanty, a senior research analyst for global LNG at Wood Mackenzie. Most of those projects are focused on supplying the Pacific Basin, he said.
There will be no shortage of liquefied natural gas or tankers to deliver the gas for years to come, accelerating several changes in the traditional LNG market of long-term sales tied to oil prices. Buyers are taking advantage of the favorable market to demand lower prices and a shift to more spot sales instead of long-term contracts, while gas marketers want more flexibility to divert cargoes to the highest-priced market they can find.
Speakers at Platts 9th annual Liquefied Natural Gas conference in Houston Feb. 25-26 all agreed that the LNG business has changed significantly in recent years.
There are up to 20 LNG tankers available at any time for spot and short-term charters, Nemeth said. Plenty of gas looking for buyers and plenty of ships to move the gas makes it a buyers’ market. More than 150 new tankers were delivered from shipyards between 2006 and 2009, with 36 more on their way in 2010-2012, bringing the worldwide total close to 400 tankers.
companies made LNG investment decisions several years ago, based on projections that showed a tight market and high prices for gas. Final investment decisions were made on seven major LNG supply projects between 2006 and 2009, said Asish Mohanty, a senior research analyst for global LNG at Wood Mackenzie. Most of those projects are focused on supplying the Pacific Basin, he said.
There will be no shortage of liquefied natural gas or tankers to deliver the gas for years to come, accelerating several changes in the traditional LNG market of long-term sales tied to oil prices. Buyers are taking advantage of the favorable market to demand lower prices and a shift to more spot sales instead of long-term contracts, while gas marketers want more flexibility to divert cargoes to the highest-priced market they can find.
Speakers at Platts 9th annual Liquefied Natural Gas conference in Houston Feb. 25-26 all agreed that the LNG business has changed significantly in recent years.
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Just because they have titles doesn’t mean they know anything or what they have to say is worth anything.
More than likely what they will have to say will have very little content. What they will have to say, will be wishful thinking and bear little resemblance to reality as it has in the past.
I would dearly love to ask the celebrities – How is it you are going to construct an 800 mile gasline to tidewater and compete in a world already so awash with gas at tidewater that some of the oil companies that have gas at tide water are canceling their projects for the lack of profitability ?
Second , Just exactly from where are you going to obtain the gas? If from an oil reservoir, how much oil are you willing to give up to get the gas ?
Third If the gas is going to come from a ‘gas reservoir’ are you aware that all of the know gas reservoirs on the North Slope are going to have to be treated as if they were oil reservoirs because of the high content of oil, condensate and gas liquids. That means acquiring supplemental gas from somewhere has to be found to maintain the reservoir gas pressure, while the gas liquids, condensate and oil are produced for 10 to 30 years before the so called gas reservoir can be produced for gas. AOGCC 2007 legislative gasline hearing in Anchorage.
Fourth, if the Mackenzie River gasline of 750 miles will cost $16 billion and Mackenzie is the same diameter, 24”, and thickness, 1/2” , as the proposed 800 mile bullet gasline to tide water Alaska, How is it you are going to construct the Alaska gasline for less than $16 billion ?
Fifth. What about the multibillion dollar cost of the gas conditioning plant? Is the going to be magic weaver of golden invisible gas conditioning plants?
For Murkowski when you were dealing with the oil companies for the gasline, at what point did the oil companies finally tell you, or your staff, that they, the oil companies, did not want to construct a gasline because Prudhoe Bay had already produce 5 billion barrels more that would been produced had the 2 bcfd gasline been constructed in the 1980s and there was a lot more oil to be produced for which they need the gas?
Murkowski, at what point after the oil companies told you that, they did not want to construct a gasline, did you ask the oil companies when they would be ready to produce gas for a gasline? The oil companies told you, Murkowski , they did not know. Correct?
Murkowski you could not get the oil companies to commit even within decades for the production of gas. Correct? And that is why your proposed gasline never had a deadline for construction. Correct ?
Murkowski at what point did the oil companies tell you that if they had the gas they would put the gas into Prudhoe Bay for more oil production? Murkowski did the oil companies ever tell how much oil was left to be produced ? If so how much more was there to be produced ? Did you even ask?
For Bill Sheffield: You took $95,000 bribe to rig the State request for proposals for a State office building Fairbanks. The State Supreme affirmed you did take a bribe and voided the contract you signed and said the State did not have to buy the building for which you had rigged the bid. The briber wants to know who end up with his $95,000; he would like his $95,000 back since he did not sell his building to the State.
Questions for Senator Stevens, when the federal offshore leasing bill reached the Senate it did not have provision for Alaska to receive 37.5 % of the offshore revenue like the other States. Why did you and Lisa Murkowski not make an effort to include Alaska so that Alaska could also receive their 37.5% of the federal offshore revenue like the other States
Neither you, Ted, nor Lisa put so much as hold on the offshore leasing bill. Why ? Who paid you and Lisa to screw Alaska and Alaskans ? The recent sale of Alaska Arctic offshore leases was for $2.6 billion, You and Lisa screwed Alaskans out of a billion dollars on just that one sale.
Ted Stevens, you and Lisa failure to put so much as hold on the offshore leasing bill, will screw Alaska and Alaskans out of tens of billions of dollars in the future oil and gas development in the Arctic offshore oil and gas development. Do you have any regrets ? if so what are they?
Ted Stevens, when Lisa Murkowski first took office Lisa authored a bill which negated the Alaska Legislature probation against Exxon’s over the Top Gasline to Canada which would interconnect with the Canadian Mackenzie River Gasline which Exxon is promoting .
Why did you support and vote for legislation which over turned the wishes of the legislature and Alaskans?
Ted, do you still call Alaskans ‘Blue Eyed Arabs’ for wanting a fair share of oil and gas revenue from their oil and gas like the rest of the world receives?
More than likely what they will have to say will have very little content. What they will have to say, will be wishful thinking and bear little resemblance to reality as it has in the past.
I would dearly love to ask the celebrities – How is it you are going to construct an 800 mile gasline to tidewater and compete in a world already so awash with gas at tidewater that some of the oil companies that have gas at tide water are canceling their projects for the lack of profitability ?
Second , Just exactly from where are you going to obtain the gas? If from an oil reservoir, how much oil are you willing to give up to get the gas ?
Third If the gas is going to come from a ‘gas reservoir’ are you aware that all of the know gas reservoirs on the North Slope are going to have to be treated as if they were oil reservoirs because of the high content of oil, condensate and gas liquids. That means acquiring supplemental gas from somewhere has to be found to maintain the reservoir gas pressure, while the gas liquids, condensate and oil are produced for 10 to 30 years before the so called gas reservoir can be produced for gas. AOGCC 2007 legislative gasline hearing in Anchorage.
Fourth, if the Mackenzie River gasline of 750 miles will cost $16 billion and Mackenzie is the same diameter, 24”, and thickness, 1/2” , as the proposed 800 mile bullet gasline to tide water Alaska, How is it you are going to construct the Alaska gasline for less than $16 billion ?
Fifth. What about the multibillion dollar cost of the gas conditioning plant? Is the going to be magic weaver of golden invisible gas conditioning plants?
For Murkowski when you were dealing with the oil companies for the gasline, at what point did the oil companies finally tell you, or your staff, that they, the oil companies, did not want to construct a gasline because Prudhoe Bay had already produce 5 billion barrels more that would been produced had the 2 bcfd gasline been constructed in the 1980s and there was a lot more oil to be produced for which they need the gas?
Murkowski, at what point after the oil companies told you that, they did not want to construct a gasline, did you ask the oil companies when they would be ready to produce gas for a gasline? The oil companies told you, Murkowski , they did not know. Correct?
Murkowski you could not get the oil companies to commit even within decades for the production of gas. Correct? And that is why your proposed gasline never had a deadline for construction. Correct ?
Murkowski at what point did the oil companies tell you that if they had the gas they would put the gas into Prudhoe Bay for more oil production? Murkowski did the oil companies ever tell how much oil was left to be produced ? If so how much more was there to be produced ? Did you even ask?
For Bill Sheffield: You took $95,000 bribe to rig the State request for proposals for a State office building Fairbanks. The State Supreme affirmed you did take a bribe and voided the contract you signed and said the State did not have to buy the building for which you had rigged the bid. The briber wants to know who end up with his $95,000; he would like his $95,000 back since he did not sell his building to the State.
Questions for Senator Stevens, when the federal offshore leasing bill reached the Senate it did not have provision for Alaska to receive 37.5 % of the offshore revenue like the other States. Why did you and Lisa Murkowski not make an effort to include Alaska so that Alaska could also receive their 37.5% of the federal offshore revenue like the other States
Neither you, Ted, nor Lisa put so much as hold on the offshore leasing bill. Why ? Who paid you and Lisa to screw Alaska and Alaskans ? The recent sale of Alaska Arctic offshore leases was for $2.6 billion, You and Lisa screwed Alaskans out of a billion dollars on just that one sale.
Ted Stevens, you and Lisa failure to put so much as hold on the offshore leasing bill, will screw Alaska and Alaskans out of tens of billions of dollars in the future oil and gas development in the Arctic offshore oil and gas development. Do you have any regrets ? if so what are they?
Ted Stevens, when Lisa Murkowski first took office Lisa authored a bill which negated the Alaska Legislature probation against Exxon’s over the Top Gasline to Canada which would interconnect with the Canadian Mackenzie River Gasline which Exxon is promoting .
Why did you support and vote for legislation which over turned the wishes of the legislature and Alaskans?
Ted, do you still call Alaskans ‘Blue Eyed Arabs’ for wanting a fair share of oil and gas revenue from their oil and gas like the rest of the world receives?
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Now the bigwigs want TWO gaslines ???
tee hee hee... for many years I have been promoting the "small is beautiful" gasline architecture to those who growl "Go Big, or Go Home"
...well, Nuiqsut already got gas, when does AKP get gas? When does Bettles get gas? Fairbanks is 2,600,000 feet south of Deadhorse.. and I have already walked half of that.. yeah, we can deploy polypipe gasline at a rate of 100,000' per day all over Alaska in all kinds of directions.
I think we should build two dozen little gaslines from the N-slope.. each carrying a different product.
http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk209/DistantThunderbolt/?action=view¤t=6inchgaslineP2FBX.jpg
The first gasline over Atigun should be propane in polypipe because it will save billions$$ in logistic fuels during construction of any type of gasline that follows.
http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk209/DistantThunderbolt/?action=view¤t=CryogenicGasline1.jpg
tee hee hee... for many years I have been promoting the "small is beautiful" gasline architecture to those who growl "Go Big, or Go Home"
...well, Nuiqsut already got gas, when does AKP get gas? When does Bettles get gas? Fairbanks is 2,600,000 feet south of Deadhorse.. and I have already walked half of that.. yeah, we can deploy polypipe gasline at a rate of 100,000' per day all over Alaska in all kinds of directions.
I think we should build two dozen little gaslines from the N-slope.. each carrying a different product.
http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk209/DistantThunderbolt/?action=view¤t=6inchgaslineP2FBX.jpg
The first gasline over Atigun should be propane in polypipe because it will save billions$$ in logistic fuels during construction of any type of gasline that follows.
http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk209/DistantThunderbolt/?action=view¤t=CryogenicGasline1.jpg
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