The Harvest North Slope liquefied natural gas facility — and Interior Gas Utility’s efforts to truck gas from the North Slope — continue to face delays.

But Clay Beethe, Harvest Midstream’s business development director, said those delays are getting smaller as contractors overcome obstacles. Despite setbacks and minor issues, he expects gas to start heading down the Dalton Highway by Sept. 1 at the latest.

“Construction keeps getting leaner, leaner and meaner,” Beethe said during an IGU board of directors meeting on Tuesday. “We are all head full toward getting this thing wrapped.”

The facility’s power building has been completed and is now “powering the rest of the plant.”

The pre-treatment building is mostly complete, but still needs to be finalized for commissioning over the next f

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