BLM is responding to an application for a right-of-way on public lands. If the BLM offers a right-of-way grant to the applicant, the target date for this action will be the offer date of the right-of-way grant to the applicant for their signature. 

The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (Applicant) plans to construct one integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) Project (Project) with interdependent facilities for the purpose of liquefying supplies of natural gas from Alaska, in particular from the Point Thomson Unit (PTU) and Prudhoe Bay Unit (PBU) production fields on the Alaska North Slope (North Slope), for export in foreign commerce and for in‐state deliveries of natural gas.  

The new Liquefaction Facility would be constructed on the eastern shore of Cook Inlet just south of the existing Agrium fertilizer plant on the Kenai Peninsula, approximately 3 miles southwest of Nikiski and 8.5 miles north of Kenai.  The Liquefaction Facility would include the structures, equipment, underlying access rights, and all other associated systems for final processing and liquefaction of natural gas, as well as storage and loading of LNG, including terminal facilities and auxiliary marine vessels used to support Marine Terminal operations (excluding LNG carriers [LNGCs]).  The Liquefaction Facility would include three liquefaction trains combining to process up to approximately 20 million metric tons per annum (MMTPA) of LNG.  Two 240,000‐cubic‐meter tanks would be constructed to store the LNG.  The Liquefaction Facility would be capable of accommodating two LNGCs.  The size of LNGCs that the Liquefaction Facility would accommodate would range between 125,000–216,000‐cubic‐meter vessels.  In addition to the Liquefaction Facility, the LNG Terminal would include the following interdependent facilities:  Mainline: A new 42‐inch‐diameter natural gas pipeline approximately 807 miles in length would extend from the Liquefaction Facility to the GTP in the PBU, including the structures, equipment, and all other associated systems.  

The proposed design anticipates up to eight compressor stations; one standalone heater station, one heater station collocated with a compressor station, and six cooling stations associated with six of the compressor stations; four meter stations; 30 Mainline block valves (MLBVs); one pig launcher facility at the GTP meter station, one pig receiver facility at the Nikiski meter station, and combined pig launcher and receiver facilities at each of the compressor stations; and associated infrastructure facilities.  Associated infrastructure facilities would include additional temporary workspace (ATWS), access roads, helipads, construction camps, pipe storage areas, material extraction sites, and material disposal sites.  Along the Mainline route, there would be at least five gas interconnection points to allow for future in‐state deliveries of natural gas.  The approximate locations of three of the gas interconnection points have been tentatively identified as follows:  milepost (MP) 441 to serve Fairbanks, MP 763 to serve the Matanuska‐Susitna Valley and Anchorage, and MP 807 to serve the Kenai Peninsula.  The size and location of the other interconnection points are unknown at this time.