Alaskan LNG export project resumes operations The existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska and a project to build a new liquefaction plant, also at Nikiski, both achieved major milestones recently. , the first tanker since late 2012 arrived at ConocoPhillips’s existing Kenai LNG plant, which is on Cook Inlet. Also, late last month, the Alaska Legislature passed a bill that paved the way for the state to take an equity interest in the new Alaska LNG project, which includes pipelines, alongside other partners, including ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, BP, and TransCanada. The project is expected to cost $45-$65 billion and is slated to begin operations in the mid-2020s. Kenai LNG originally opened in 1969 and was the largest LNG export facility in the world at the time, and the first facility to serve the Asia-Pacific market. Annual exports from the plant peaked in […]