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Gold/Mining/Energy : Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline

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From: Snowshoe9/1/2009 4:17:57 PM
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Southcentral (Alaska) utilities planning for possible gas shortages -
WINTER: Cold snaps can strain system to emergency levels.

By ALAN BAILEY
Petroleum News
Last Modified: September 1st, 2009 11:09 AM

Faced with the strong possibility of a shortfall in the amount of natural gas area utilities need delivered during a severe cold snap, the utilities are completing a plan to try to avert the need for power cuts and to ensure that, if power cuts are required, the effect on consumers is minimized.

The maximum amount natural gas that can be flowed to users from the aging Cook Inlet gas fields has been steadily declining over the years, and in a cold snap last January gas demand came close to the limit. The maximum deliverability has declined further since then, and a shortfall is more likely if the severely cold weather of early 2009 recurs.

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