Floating Liquified Natural Gas Projects

We received the following information on floating liquified natural gas projects, please take a moment to look at the report found on the link below.

FLNG drops anchor as industry moves production offshore

Billions of dollars are being committed to what could be the liquefied natural gas industry’s next big trend: Floating LNG projects, or FLNG.

Three projects are under way, and the whole LNG world is watching to see how they work out. First production could come in 2014 or 2015.

Can producing LNG aboard giant floating factories really cut costs and development time? Can the production vessels really withstand the worst fury an ocean can churn up? Can they really bring to market gas from hundreds of remote offshore fields that would be too expensive to develop otherwise?

Major oil and gas producers, multinational engineering firms and the world’s biggest shipyards all are trying to position themselves for breakout growth of FLNG.

The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska natural gas pipeline projects prepared the following report on the development of floating LNG projects: http://www.arcticgas.gov/flng-drops-anchor-industry-moves-production-offshore

 

 

Department of Education & Early Childhood Development Proposed Changes in Early Literacy Screening

The Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) proposes to adopt regulation changes in Title 4 of the Alaska Administrative Code, 4AAC 06.713, Early Literacy Screening, which may include issues such as the following:

Amending the chapter to add a new subsection that addresses effective literacy screening measures for K- third grades.

You may comment on the proposed regulation changes, including the potential costs to private persons of complying with the proposed changes, by submitting written comments to the Commissioner’s Office, Department of Education & Early Development, Attn: Regulations Review, 801 West Tenth Street, Suite 200, PO Box 110500, Juneau, Alaska 99811-0500. Comments may also be submitted via fax, (907) 465-4156, or via the Internet, at http://education.alaska.gov.  Comments must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. May 21, 2013.

Oral comments may be submitted at a hearing to be held on June 6, 2013, at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Administration Building, Assembly Chambers, Basement Level,144 N. Binkley Street, Soldotna, AK 99669. This hearing will begin at 8:10 a.m. and might be extended to accommodate those present before 7:55 a.m. who did not have an opportunity to comment. Persons may also comment at the oral hearing via the following Legislative Information Offices:

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M/V Tustumena Summer Update – Ferry will now be up and running in July

The Alaska Department of Transportation put this press release out today

For Immediate Release: April 26, 2013
Contact: Jeremy Woodrow, 907-465-8994, Jeremy.Woodrow@alaska.gov

Tustumena June 2013 Sailings Canceled

(JUNEAU, Alaska) – The Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) today announced that the M/V Tustumena will not return to service until July 2013.

The M/V Tustumena entered a capital improvement project on November 1, 2012 and was originally scheduled to return to service on April 17, 2013. Due, in part, to unexpected discovery items, specifically steel work, a project extension until May 29, 2013 was conveyed to the Seward Shipyard.

Recent events indicate that the yard work will not be completed until approximately July 4, 2013. As a result, AMHS is forced to cancel scheduled M/V Tustumena sailings from June 4, 2013 through July 6, 2013. The new sailing schedule for the vessel will begin July 7, 2013 departing Homer for Seldovia.

Included in these cancelled sailings are two Aleutian Chain runs. AMHS encourages all affected passengers on these runs to take advantage of the available capacity on the M/V Kennicott Aleutian Chain run in late May.

An updated schedule is available online at FerryAlaska.com. AMHS staff is contacting affected passengers; for more information, please call your local terminal or the AMHS central reservations office at 1-907-465-3941 or toll free at 1-800-642-0066.

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities oversees 255 airports, 11 ferries serving 35 communities, 5,619 miles of highway and 720 public facilities throughout the state of Alaska. The mission of the department is to Get Alaska Moving through service and infrastructure.

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