Trish Baker
197:21 - 198:11
"we have to make a decision third quarter this year of which way to go if there's going to be a gas pipeline, we don't need to import, but we need to know that because we're running out of Runway to have enough time time for an import facility to be built in time to meet our gas requirement."
“we have to make a decision third quarter this year of which way to go if there's going to be a gas pipeline, we don't need to import, but we need to know that because we're running out of Runway to have enough time time for an import facility to be built in time to meet our gas requirement.”
- Speaker
- Trish Baker
- Timestamp
- 197:21 – 198:11
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 1, 2026
From the transcript
That said, we have to make a decision third quarter this year of which way to go if there's going to be a gas pipeline, we don't need to import, but we need to know that because we're running out of Runway to have enough time time for an import facility to be built in time to meet our gas requirement. So that's our situation. The banking agreements I was referring to, we have what's called an under list agreement with hilcorp, meaning gas produced today that we it's reserve gas beyond our immediate requirement they have access to now and they will return that to us after this contract expiration in 2028. And we have a what's called an exchange agreement with Marathon. It works the same way.
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