Posted on 04/01/2010 10:12:34 AM PDT by thackney
A Fairbanks electric utility has agreed to buy the natural gas that is expected to be trucked into the city by 2012.
The policy board of the Golden Valley Electric Association on Monday approved a 15-year contract with the Alaska Gasline Port Authority -- a partnership of municipalities taking out $250 million in loans to buy Fairbanks Natural Gas, build gas processing plants and truck natural gas down from the North Slope.
The contract is valued at $12 million to $15 million per year; the port authority will provide about 10 percent of the utility's fuel.
Officials who worked on the deal said natural gas customers eventually could see their electric bills cut by 30 percent because of increased supply. Roughly 1,100 homes and businesses in Fairbanks are hooked up to natural gas.
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trucked?
Why don’t they just buy some blimps and haul it down that way? I guess it would freeze.
Fairbanks Natural Gas, LLC (FNG) is the natural gas utility providing gas service to Fairbanks, Alaska. The company initiated service to its first customer during the spring of 1998. Over 1000 residential and commercial customers now enjoy the benefits of natural gas. FNG continues to broaden its underground distribution system to serve the Fairbanks community.
Until recently, natural gas has not been available to the Fairbanks area. The lack of a proven source of natural gas in Interior Alaska has kept the Fairbanks community from receiving and utilizing natural gas....until 1999.
The Fairbanks area still lacks a direct source (gas pipeline), but FNG utilizes the technology of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to provide Fairbanks with natural gas.
FNG purchases natural gas from the Cook Inlet area. The purchased gas is then condensed into Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Then, by way of truck and trailer, the LNG is transported to Fairbanks where it is temporarily stored.
http://www.fngas.com/about.html
Maybe this will be the method and the pipeline will be delayed even longer.
Ice Road Truckers with big tandem rolling bombs....have to be sure and tune in for that
Very tough to haul the volume and handle the winds of the North Slope. Plenty of trucks and can handle the typical weather far better.
Where do you know of any regular delivery of mass done by blimps?
LNG is hardly a bomb. It won’t explode and has to be vaporized to ignite in a rather limited mixture to air ratio. By the time it has mixed to ignitable ratio, it has risen in the air.
It makes sense, although pipelines would be better, obviously. But pipelines take time and a LOT of delays by the regulators. And I’m sure Obama has given orders to kill any and all Alaskan pipelines, by hook or by crook, just to make Sarah look bad.
Keep in mind FNG is already trucking LNG to
Fairbanks from the South. The Cook Inlet, where they get the gas now, has dwindling supplies unless more drilling is done. They are just switching to the North, similar distance and less traffic.
Oh, I was just making it up. I have seen pictures of some Chinese people with some kind of large balloons filled up with methane that they got from placing them over bamboo straws in a landfill. They used if for cooking is what I heard.
Interesting. Would an LNG plant be needed in order to ship it?
They’ve talked about building a line to Fairbanks for in-state use before, I don’t know how much that got pushed or what the status is with it.
I think the biggest challenge with this is the haul road logistics. With the ULSD requirements all diesel is being hauled in from Fairbanks, and gasoline is too. Plus, increased trucking due to the fact that the fields are old.
A small LNG plant would need to be built on the North Slope.
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