May 2014 – Welcome

Singapore wealth fund to invest in Alaska?

May 2, 2014

Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund (that nation’s Permanent Fund) is looking at an Alaska investment, Alaska Dispatch publisher and Anchorage Daily News owner (after May 5) Alice Roghoff told an Alaska World Affairs luncheon May 2. Roghoff was speaking on Arctic issues with former Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer, who is chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Council. Roghoff, a businesswoman, has been active on Arctic issues for years and is the co-founder of Arctic Circle, a private nonprofit that hosts seminars…

Alaska back in LNG business! First tanker arrives in Kenai

May 2, 2014

Alaska is back in the liquefied natural gas export business. The first LNG tanker has called at the ConocoPhillips LNG plant at Nikiski, near Kenai, since late 2012. This follows the company’s reactivation of the plant this spring, company spokeswoman said Friday. The plant has been in a suspended status since late 2012. The tanker is the Excel, owned and operated by the Belgium-based Exmar shipping group, and it landed Friday morning, May 2. ConocoPhillips could not say how long…