BP official says Alaska gas pipeline could be reality by 2011

If everything goes right, North Slope gas could be flowing through a gasline to Lower 48 markets by 2011, a top BP executive told the Senate Energy Committee Feb. 25 in Washington, D.C. David Welch, president of BP's Alaska-Canada pipelines business, referred to the North Slope’s 35 trillion cubic f....

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