據8月24日消息稱，據Kallanish Energy報道，美國能源部已經批準了計劃中的阿拉斯加液化天然氣（LNG）項目，以出口液化天然氣。

    上周四，該機構批準了這個價值387億美元的項目的最終出口許可證。

    美國能源部已在2015年5月批準了有條件出口許可證，等待聯邦能源監管委員會的項目批準。

    該項目由阿拉斯加天然氣管道開發公司開發。

    該項目旨在將阿拉斯加北坡的天然氣輸送到亞洲出口，并向該州境內輸送天然氣。

    該項目每年將生產2000萬公噸液化天然氣。

    該項目將包括一條807英里長的管道，每天輸送39億立方英尺的天然氣，位于北坡普拉德霍灣的天然氣處理廠，以及位于阿拉斯加南部基奈半島的液化設施。

    它還需要另外兩條管道，將生產裝置與天然氣處理廠連接起來。

    阿拉斯加液化天然氣項目于6年前首次提出，是全球最大的液化天然氣項目之一。

    自20世紀70年代末以來，該州一直在尋求開發天然氣的方法，因為當地沒有市場，也沒有發達的基礎設施將天然氣輸送到市場。

    據估計，北坡普拉德霍灣和湯普森角總共蘊藏著30萬億立方英尺的天然氣。

    曹海斌 摘譯自 能源新聞
 

 DOE approves exports for Alaska LNG

    The U.S. Energy Department has approved the planned Alaska LNG project to export liquefied natural gas (LNG), Kallanish Energy reports.

    The agency last Thursday approved a final export license for the $38.7 billion project.

    DOE had approved a conditional export permit in May 2015, pending project approval by the Fdederal Energy Regulatory Commission.

    The project is being developed by the Alaska Gasline Development Company.

    The project is designed to move natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to Asia for export and to provide in-state deliveries of natural gas.

    The project would produce 20 million metric tons of LNG per year.

   It would include an 807-mile pipeline to move up to 3.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, a gas-treatment plant in Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope and liquefaction facilities on the Kenai Peninsula in southern Alaska.

    It would also require two additional pipelines connecting production units to the gas-treatment plant.

    Alaska LNG, first proposed six years ago, is one of the biggest LNG projects in the world.

    The state has been seeking a way to develop that gas since the late 1970s because there are no local markets and no developed infrastructure to get the gas to markets.

    It is estimated that the North Slope’s Prudhoe Bay and Point Thompson together hold 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.