FERC revises Trans-Foreland EA schedule

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said Dec. 12 that its staff has revised the schedule for completion of the environmental assessment for Trans-Foreland Pipeline Co. LLC’s Kenai LNG Cool Down Project.

Dec. 13 was identified in June as the EA issuance date, FERC said, but Trans-Foreland told the commission in October that it would not file certain information until January.

On Dec. 9, FERC staff issued a follow-up data request, “requiring Trans-Foreland to clarify certain critical and complex information and address data gaps that were not addressed by Trans-Foreland in previous responses to staff data requests.”

Trans-Foreland filed an application with FERC in March to make facility modifications at the Kenai LNG Plant to bring parts of the plant out of warm idle to allow for import of liquefied natural gas with the goal of providing up to 7 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas to Trans-Foreland’s affiliated Kenai Refinery.

Trans-Foreland is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tesoro Alaska Co., formerly Andeavor and since last year part of Marathon Petroleum Corp.

FERC said Trans-Foreland is proposing the addition of a 1,000 horsepower electric-driven boil-off gas, BOG, booster compressor unit and other changes “to facilitate the import of LNG to cool down the existing LNG storage tanks and associated LNG facilities.”

- KRISTEN NELSON