Comment.  Earlier this month, your author addressed the Kenai Chamber of Commerce.  Later that day, ConocoPhillips and Marathon announced discontinuation of the Kenai LNG facility and we broke the news here about the Nigerian purchase of Agrium’s facilities.  We noted the giant equipment required for the project and later reported that Robert Roest of Mammoet USA (providing much of the massive moving equipment) could make that equipment available for other large jobs this summer.  One of our readers is a 41-year industry veteran and former Alyeska Pipeline president, David Wight (NGP Photo).  He responded to our story with this observation: "Is there an economic opportunity to dismantle the gas to liquids plant, send it to the north slope and ship the product to Fairbanks?"  He said, "I do not know the economics but it might work if is done when heavy lift equipment is in Alaska to move the fertilizer plant and BP is a low cost seller. … might use Alaska royalty gas for state facilities such as UAF and the Arctic research facility. Big environmental plus."  We offer Mr. Wight’s observations for whomever might find the concept to be just the right economic ‘serendipity’ to make an otherwise marginal project viable.  -dh   

Comment: Referring to continuous federal delays of Shell Oil Company’s Chukchi and Beaufort Sea permit applications, another observant reader, Peter Macksey (NGP Photo) of Steelfab Alaska, asks, "Can we jump on this bandwagon for SHELL?"  Court orders Obama to act on drilling permits.  A federal court ordered the Obama administration Thursday to act on five oil drilling permits in the Gulf of Mexico within 30 days, calling the delays in issuing new decisions "unreasonable, unacceptable, and unjustified."  -dh