Notes and Sources

63.  The GTL option is represented in NEMS in the form of facilities with capacities of 34,000 barrel per day that can be added incrementally when oil and petroleum product prices are sufficiently high to make their operation profitable. 

64.  Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas, Alaska Oil and Gas Report 2007 (Anchorage, AK, July 2007), Table III.1, p. 3-2, web site www. dog.dnr.state.ak.us/oil/products/publications/annual/ report.htm. 

65.  K.W. Sherwood and J.D. Craig, Prospects for Development of Alaska Natural Gas: A Review as of January 2001 (Anchorage, AK: U.S. Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service, Resource Evaluation Office), Chapters 4 and 5, web site www.mms.gov/ alaska/re/natgas/akngas2.pdf. Resource recovery costs were updated for this analysis, to reflect the escalation of drilling costs over time.