...the company has spent $150 million developing a pipeline plan, and is now out seeking bids from customers who want to ship gas through that line in a process called "open season." "Those commitments are important because they indicate the market...

...Alaska Pipeline and Denali projects make public the results of their open seasons. Both projects last year sought bids to ship gas through their projects in a formal process called "open seasons." Both said they received bids, but have yet to say...

...construction timetable and a deadline for getting commitments to ship gas in the line. Producers say that bill's structure is...breaks for 10 years to the first companies pledging to ship gas in the pipeline, but the companies also want other considerations...

...to be involved so they can hold down costs. Costs to build the pipeline will translate directly into what it costs to ship gas on the pipeline, and thus how much it will eventually make the state, they reason. Massey said Exxon Mobil had a track...

...to build one. After coming up with a design, it figures out a solid cost estimate and decides what it will charge to ship gas through the pipeline. That charge is called the tariff. Then the company holds what's known as an open season, inviting...

...player." Keane said the company doesn't want to build the pipeline but eventually wants to be among the companies that ships gas in it. "We want to be able to gain access to pipeline capacity and want to be able to move our gas to market once we...

...shows that TransCanada successfully receives commitments to ship gas in an "open season" scheduled to begin May 1. "I'm...to meet. Such an agreement is an unconditional bid to ship gas, while experts who have testified to the Legislature said...

...would own the natural gas transmission line. Enstar would own and operate retail distribution spurs. Unocal would ship gas on the system. "These three companies have different areas of expertise," Story said. "Unocal is skilled at finding...

The Denali natural gas pipeline consortium said it has received "significant" bids from customers hoping to ship gas through its planned $35 billion pipeline from the Alaska North Slope to Alberta. As expected, those bids came with unspecified...

...Jones Act compliant vessels. Both Totem Ocean Trailer Express and a world-class natural gas shipper have proposed to ship gas from Alaska to market on U.S.-built vessels at rates that we believe are competitive with foreign built vessels...