Trans-Foreland Pipeline Seeks Extension for Alaska LNG Import Project
(Reuters) — Marathon Petroleum Corp.'s Trans-Foreland Pipeline Co. unit wants more time to convert the Kenai liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Alaska into an import terminal, U.S. energy regulators said on Monday.
A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) notice said that Trans-Foreland last week sought an extension until December 2025 to complete the facility.
FERC approved Trans-Foreland's request to build the plant in December 2020 and gave the company until December 2022 to place it into service.
Trans-Foreland said it has yet to make a final investment decision to build the project because the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have worsened economic and logistical conditions.
"Uncertainty and volatility in the global LNG market have made it difficult for Trans-Foreland to secure a suitable supply arrangement that would provide the financial certainty necessary for the project," Trans-Foreland said in its filing.
Trans-Foreland has said the facility would import up to four tanker loads of LNG per year and use its boil-off gas management system to deliver imported gas to the adjacent Kenai Refinery.
The Kenai LNG export plant entered service in 1969. It has not exported LNG since 2015.
The plant was the only big LNG export facility in North America until Cheniere Energy Inc's Sabine Pass export terminal in Louisiana entered service in February 2016. Nearly all of the LNG from Kenai went to Japan.
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