Lloyds proposes LNG terminal offshore Alaska North Slope to bring cargoes to Asia

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Lloyds Energy is studying the feasibility of direct shipments of LNG from the Alaska North Slope to Asia, officials with Lloyds subsidiary Qilak LNG said Wednesday. With an overland 800-mile gas pipeline to southern Alaska apparently on the back burner, Lloyds is the first to propose an alternative project in to ship gas from the North Slope in ice-breaking tankers through the Beaufort Sea and Bering Strait. “We’ve been trying to market North Slope gas by pipeline for 50 years and nothing has worked. It’s time to try something different,” former Alaska Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell said in a press conference in Anchorage Wednesday. Treadwell is chairman and CEO of Qilak LNG, which is based in Alaska.