FERC gets gas pipeline resource reports

TransCanada Alaska Co. has submitted 11 draft resource reports for the Alaska Pipeline Project to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The project is being jointly advanced by affiliates of TransCanada Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp.

The office of the federal coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects called the Jan. 13 report delivery a key milestone, and noted that the roughly 4,500 pages of documents detail and discuss potential impacts along the 803-mile U.S. corridor from Point Thomson to Prudhoe Bay to the Canadian border.

The first of seven scoping meetings is scheduled for Jan. 30 in Fairbanks, and a January Anchorage meeting cancelled because the resource had not been received is expected to be rescheduled for February.

FERC announced cancellation of the Jan. 18 Anchorage public scoping meeting on Jan. 4, and FERC staff said then that if the draft resource reports where not filed by Jan. 17, the remainder of the scheduled scoping meetings would be cancelled.

—Petroleum News