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Long-proposed project to move North Slope natural gas across Alaska by pipeline to a liquefaction and export terminal on the state's southern coast.
Taiwan's economy ministry said it plans to buy 6 million tons a year of Alaska LNG and invest up to $4.4 billion in the project. The equity stake and timeline that would let lenders underwrite the pipeline are still to be negotiated.
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Glenfarne needs long-term buyers for 16 million tons of Alaska LNG a year before it can finance a project Korean pipe and ship makers hope to supply. Potential deals cover 13 million tons, mostly nonbinding, and Seoul says any money from its $350 billion US pledge depends on commercial viability.
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South Korea says it will invest in Alaska LNG only if the project proves commercially viable, after the White House put Seoul's stake at $54 billion. Until Seoul's review ends, anyone modeling the pipeline's financing is counting on money Seoul still treats as conditional.
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South Korea's first agreed US investment project is a $23.3 billion gas-fired power plant in Encinal, Texas. Japan's March batch has the same tilt, putting allied money into US generation next to data-center clusters that are short of power.
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Donald Trump is expected to count $54 billion for Alaska LNG in a $200 billion Korean investment plan, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. Seoul still lists Alaska for future talks, so the White House will name the figure before the government paying it has agreed to it.
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Korea swapped two of three projects in its $200 billion U.S. plan for reactors and Alaska LNG, ministry documents obtained by an opposition lawmaker show. Neither went through the feasibility study the originals had, and the only price on the LNG leg is Donald Trump's $54 billion.
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Westinghouse is demanding more than the $175 million licensing fee on each APR1400 built in the US, The Seoul Economic Daily reports. A bigger payment leaves Korea less room on cost and less of the work it needs to make the US reactors commercially reasonable.
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Glenfarne's $44.5 billion to $54.5 billion estimate puts Alaska LNG at more than double the cost of recent US projects per ton of capacity. The case for South Korean money now rests on cheaper shipping to Asia and pressure from Washington.
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US Energy Department is putting $150 million into a $400 million, 223-mile Alaska power line from Beluga to Healy, 37.5% of the cost. The money lands with JD Vance's campaign visit for Senator Dan Sullivan, and the unfunded balance will show how much of it is capital.
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Donald Trump threatened to double what South Korea pays unless Seoul backs an Alaska LNG stake Howard Lutnick put at more than $50 billion. Ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms, that pressure is landing on allies while Trump keeps a trade truce with China.
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Donald Trump threatened tariffs of 150% to 300% on foreign firms that do not build US plants within about 18 months, a day after pressing Seoul on Alaska LNG. Seoul says it has only agreed to review that project, so its $350 billion pledge is still being bargained over.
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Trump said South Korea plans to invest about $54 billion in Alaska's gas pipeline, but President Lee Jae Myung's party says it is not finalized. Seoul still has to test the project's commercial viability, so for now the figure is an announcement made weeks before a close Alaska Senate race.
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The trade ministry takes the program to two National Assembly committees behind closed doors on the 22nd, five days later than planned, with a Texas gas plant, large reactors and Alaska LNG on the agenda.
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Kim Jung-kwan came back from Washington saying the targets, scale and structure of the projects were still being worked, that several issues are unresolved, and that he intends to try for a final deal inside the week.
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