An Alaska energy blogger breaks down the looming, much-nuanced Cook Inlet gas shortfall

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Cook Inlet Natural Gas,Erin Mckittrick,Hilcorp

Alaskans who depend on natural gas for heat or electricity are confronting a looming shortfall in Cook Inlet.

A specialized unit called a jackup rig, at left, drilled a natural gas well last year at Hilcorp’s Tyonek platform, right, in Cook Inlet.

There are a few proposals to lessen the blow to ratepayers’ pocketbooks, but some are wondering if enough progress has been made on any of them to at least put off higher bills further into the future., McKittrick looked at a few different timelines related to the gas shortfall and says it’s not surprising that the whole issue has been confusing.: There’s so many bits and pieces of information coming out at different times with different quotes from different people.

So we’re pretty much still doing exactly the same thing. Now, exactly the same thing does include gas drilling. Like Hilcorp has said, and, you know, the data backs them up, is that they do drill quite a few gas wells. They haven’t actually slowed down their drilling of wells. They just claim that, you know, the amount that they keep drilling is what’s necessary for them to offset the natural decline and keep up with the contracts they already have.

And if that happens, then what Enstar has said they would do or what they said the option is, is those like little shipping container-size tanks, which presumably come on a container ship, and they’ve stated prices of $25 or $30 1,000 cubic feet for that kind of gas, which would be, you know, more than triple what we have now at about $8.

 

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