Harvest Midstream and the Interior Gas Utility officially flipped the switch on a completed North Slope liquified natural gas plant this month, as the Fairbanks-based gas utility celebrated its first truckloads of North Slope gas for its customers.

“Bringing North Slope natural gas into Fairbanks is a historic step for Interior Alaska but also for our state as a whole,” IGU General Manager Elena Sudduth said in a Thursday statement. “This project gives our community access to a new, virtually unlimited, source of gas, strengthening our resilience and ensuring our customers have access to reliable service as Alaska’s energy landscape continues to evolve.”

The Harvest LNG facility, built near Deadhorse, can produce up to 150,000 gallons of LNG per day. It’s three times the capacity as IGU’

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