U.S. FERC approves Marathon’s proposed Alaska LNG import project

U.S. energy regulators approved a plan by Marathon Petroleum Corp’s Trans-Foreland Pipeline Co LLC unit to convert the Kenai liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant in Alaska into an import terminal.

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) said Trans-Foreland has two years to put the proposed project into service.

FERC Commissioner Richard Glick, meanwhile, said he dissented as he has done in other recent cases because “the Commission is again refusing to consider the consequences its actions have for climate change.”

Trans-Foreland said the facility would import up to four tanker loads of LNG per year and use its boil-off gas management system to deliver imported gas to the adjacent Kenai Refinery.

U.S. FERC approves Marathon’s proposed Alaska LNG import project