JOC by Tim Bradner.  

The first new jobs created by Gov. Bill Walker’s new gas pipeline plan may well be in California, it appears.

Following the governor’s directions, the state-owned Alaska Gasline Development Corp. has initiated a study of costs to do engineering to scale-up a state-backed North Slope natural gas pipeline, the Alaska Stand-Alone Gas Pipeline. The state pipeline is now planned with a capacity to move 500 million cubic feet per day. The governor wants to increase it to as much as 2.6 billion cubic feet per day.  Read more….