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Pearce: As much as $1.5 billion in infrastructure work will be needed in Alaska before North Slope gas pipeline can be built

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief

There’s been a lot of discussion around the huge investment, up to $20 billion, needed to build a pipeline to deliver Alaska North Slope natural gas to markets in the Lower 48. “The project is unprecedented in size and scope,” Drue Pearce of the Department of the Interior told the American Conferen....

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