On Tuesday, President Trump gave his first major speech to a joint session of Congress, and it was a big deal. One thing in particular, though, had ears perking up all across the Great Land – you could almost hear them. That thing was the president’s announcement of an intended natural gas pipeline, from the North Slope to the Kenai Peninsula town of Nikiski.
And it will be a huge, beautiful pipeline:
“My administration is working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest in the world, where Japan, South Korea and other nations want to be our partner with investments of trillions of dollars each,” he said during Tuesday night’s speech. “There’s never been anything like that one. It will be truly spectacular. It’s all set to go. The permitting is gotten.”
That pipeline is known as Alaska LNG, a massive proposed project that would send natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope 800 miles south to Nikiski, where it would get cooled to a liquid state and exported overseas — most likely to America’s Pacific allies like Japan.
So, how big, and how beautiful will it be? Well, not the world’s biggest, but it’s big. Beauty, we concede, is in the eye of the beholder; but Alaskans with jobs – now, that’s beautiful:
The Alaska LNG Project pipeline would be far from the longest in the world. That title goes to Russia’s Druzhba Pipeline, which covers more than 3,100 miles in Europe. In North America, the Keystone Oil Pipeline runs more than 2,100 miles between Canada and the United states.
But at 42 inches, it would be large in diameter. A 2021 report from Global Energy Monitor puts the average pipeline diameter at 30 inches. The Keystone pipeline is 36 inches in diameter.
What some may be curious about is this: The current Alaska oil pipeline runs to the port at Valdez, overland the whole way – it passes through mountainous terrain, including the Brooks and Alaska ranges, but over land. This new LNG pipeline, to go to Nikiski, would have to either run way east and then back west over more mountains to get around the Turnagain Arm or across the mouth of the Turnagain to get to the Kenai Peninsula. […]
— Read More: redstate.com
