Comments on: Gov. Parnell: Prosperty follows high standards, high production http://homertribune.com/2013/01/gov-parnell-prosperty-follows-high-standards-high-production/ Homer, Alaska Wed, 22 May 2013 20:57:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Parnell vs Reality http://homertribune.com/2013/01/gov-parnell-prosperty-follows-high-standards-high-production/comment-page-1/#comment-107081 Parnell vs Reality Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:31:43 +0000 http://homertribune.com/?p=32612#comment-107081 Parnell: "As AGDC has moved beyond these regulatory hurdles, it has also moved toward a larger diameter pipe. By switching to a larger pipe concept, AGDC has provided a simple answer to a complex question about how to lower the cost of getting Alaska’s gas to Alaskans: Get more gas in the pipe." Reality: "A proposal for an in-state pipeline that could carry North Slope natural gas to communities from Fairbanks to southcentral Alaska has been revised to eliminate the transport of natural gas liquids Eliminating them from an in-state pipeline would allow the project to be built with industry-standard 36-inch pipe rather than 25-inch pipe, Richards said. Pressure could be lowered from 25,000 pound per square inch, which requires premium fittings, pipe and valves, to 1,480 pounds per square inch. NGLs in the line would have required Fairbanks to have facilities to take them out, depressurize gas for local use and re-inject the liquids. Another extraction plant would have been needed at the end of the 737-mile line. "Those are expensive facilities," The projected cost remains roughly the same -- $7.7 billion" for more read "In-state gasline planners revise proposal" In Summary, we get less gas, it's more expensive, the industry saves a bundle and the state still pays the same amount. Parnell is either lying or incredibly easy to fool, but he is planning on building lots more gas pipelines/infrastructure so we probably should stop him before he wastes the rest of the state treasury with deals like this. Parnell: “As AGDC has moved beyond these regulatory hurdles, it has also moved toward a larger diameter pipe. By switching to a larger pipe concept, AGDC has provided a simple answer to a complex question about how to lower the cost of getting Alaska’s gas to Alaskans: Get more gas in the pipe.”

Reality: “A proposal for an in-state pipeline that could carry North Slope natural gas to communities from Fairbanks to southcentral Alaska has been revised to eliminate the transport of natural gas liquids

Eliminating them from an in-state pipeline would allow the project to be built with industry-standard 36-inch pipe rather than 25-inch pipe, Richards said. Pressure could be lowered from 25,000 pound per square inch, which requires premium fittings, pipe and valves, to 1,480 pounds per square inch.

NGLs in the line would have required Fairbanks to have facilities to take them out, depressurize gas for local use and re-inject the liquids. Another extraction plant would have been needed at the end of the 737-mile line. “Those are expensive facilities,”

The projected cost remains roughly the same — $7.7 billion”

for more read “In-state gasline planners revise proposal”

In Summary, we get less gas, it’s more expensive, the industry saves a bundle and the state still pays the same amount. Parnell is either lying or incredibly easy to fool, but he is planning on building lots more gas pipelines/infrastructure so we probably should stop him before he wastes the rest of the state treasury with deals like this.

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