Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Kenai Peninsula LNG terminal is going to have a new owner and a new purpose!

Blog Title: Kenai Peninsula LNG terminal is going to have a new owner and a new purpose!

Happy Wednesday!  We hope you have been able to keep dry today!  It looks like the rain has moved away nonetheless the cold air is moving in.   We’re not looking forward to it!    

Did anyone happen to read the Oil & Gas Journal’s OGJ Daily Update on February 7, 2025, their article titled, “Harvest buys Kenai LNG to repurpose as import terminal”?  In the article, it speaks on how Harvest Alaska, a subsidiary of Harvest Midstream Co., will be buying Kenai Peninsula LNG terminal and its assets from one of Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC), subordinate companies.  Harvest Alaska will be redeveloping the export terminal into an import regasification terminal to help bring natural gas to south central Alaska, where additional supply in needed.  The changeover of the terminal is expected to take approximately a year with the terminal being fully functional by the beginning of 2028.  

The export terminal, Kenai Peninsula LNG is located on the Cook Inlet in Alaska.  Its assets include a berth capable of loading 138,000 cubic meter LNG vessel and able to store 107,000 cubic meters of natural gas in its tanks.  Harvest Alaska will be starting a FEED study on the Kenai Peninsula LNG terminal for the changeover.  Harvest Alaska and Chugach Electric Assoc.  will be negotiating terms for them to bring in a supply LNG; they currently have one with Hilcorp Energy and their contract doesn’t end until the end of the first quarter of 2028.  MPC’s subsidiary will be getting gas for its refinery on the Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula LNG Terminal.  This project is a band-aid to help south central Alaska until the decision to develop the 20-million tonne/year Alaska LNG project export terminal on the North Slope advances and becomes reality.  We wish Harvest Alaska luck and speed navigating the new administration for their redevelopment of their new import terminal!  If you would like to read more of the Oil & Gas Journal’s article, please click the link: Harvest buys Kenai LNG to repurpose as import terminal | Oil & Gas Journal.

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