Point Thomson Expansion Seen Boosting Prospects for Alaska LNG Project

摘要

ExxonMobil Corp.'s plan to engineer an expansion of the Point Thomson natural gas project on the North Slope has been approved by Alaska, considered a key step as a long-awaited gas export project takes shape. Point Thomson is on state acreage along the Beaufort Sea, 60 miles east of Prudhoe Bay. It includes 28 state leases on 93,000 acres. Gaining approval to expand gas output is considered key in helping to firm up the planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project underway by the state-run Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC), which took over the project last year from ExxonMobil, BP plc and ConocoPhillips.