Proposed Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Routes

There are several routes up for consideration for a proposed Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline route.

Here is a map of what may be a non-Alaskan (to Valdez) full route for gas from the North Slope of Alaska through Canada to the continental United States.

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MidAmerican

MidAmerican proposes to build a 745-mile, $6.3-billion pipeline from the North Slope near Prudhoe Bay to the Alaska-Yukon border. According to MidAmerican, another company will build a companion pipeline in Canada to carry the natural gas to Canadian and U.S. markets. The company plans to place the pipeline in service by the end of 2010. MidAmerican is a privately held company of which Warren Buffett and his Berkshire Hathaway Corporation are the major owners.

Consortium
A consortium including Conoco-Phillips, BP, and Exxon, three major North Slope producers, submitted the second application to build a pipeline.

The consortium's plan calls for construction of a 3,500-mile pipeline to ship up to five billion cubic feet of gas from Alaska through Canada to the lower 48 states. The negotiating and permitting process is still a hurdle and may include "risk mitigation" in some form.

Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority

The gasline route would be from Prudhoe Bay to tidewater on Prince William Sound and the spur line from Glennallen to the Southcentral gas distribution grid.