Buccaneer interested in LNG exports

Buccaneer Energy is interested in exporting liquefied natural gas to Asia, potentially through the ConocoPhillips LNG facility on the Kenai Peninsula, should it find enough gas to exceed the needs of the Southcentral gas market, Christina Anderson, Buccaneer’s environmental and stakeholder relations manager, told the Commonwealth North Energy Action Coalition on Aug. 2.

“We’re really excited about potentially supplying the growing Asian market with natural gas, should there be enough (gas) to sustain Alaska first,” Anderson said.

Anderson said that the independent Cook Inlet gas producers had recently conducted a roundtable discussion with ConocoPhillips and the U.S. Department of Energy on what it would take to restart the LNG facility, which ConocoPhillips mothballed in March 2013 because of gas supply shortages.

Buccaneer is currently producing gas from its Kenai Loop field near the city of Kenai and sees plenty of future gas demand from what it anticipates to be a growing Alaska gas market.

“We don’t see Alaska downsizing any time soon,” Anderson said.

—Alan Bailey