Harvest, an affiliate of Hilcorp, closed the acquisition of Marathon Petroleum’s Kenai LNG facility in Nikiski in November 2025, advancing its February 2025 plan to redevelop existing LNG infrastructure to strengthen Southcentral Alaska’s energy security and provide energy solutions for local utilities and consumers.
Moreover, the acquisition includes about 100 acres of industrial waterfront, 107,000 cubic meters of LNG storage, and legacy dock infrastructure historically capable of handling LNG vessels up to 138,000 cubic meters (about 2.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas).
Last month, Harvest’s Trans-Foreland Pipeline received an extension of time from FERC to complete construction of the Kenai LNG cool down project and place it into service by December 17, 2028.
The cool down project would allow delivery of 3,500 to 7,000 million British thermal units (MMBtu) per day of gas into the state of Alaska, and the terminal would have a total annual capacity of 1.825 million MMBtu per year.
Amendment
Trans-Foreland has now filed an amendment to its application with FERC to amend certain portions of the authorization granted in the cool down order and substitute with alternative facilities.
With this amendment, Trans-Foreland would expand the Kenai LNG terminal to receive up to 0.4 million metric tons per annum of LNG and achieve a send-out capacity of up to 20 Bcf/year, it said in its application dated January 9.
The amendment proposed includes a request to vacate, to the extent necessary, limited portions of the authorization with respect to the construction of certain facilities of the project and substitute with related facilities.
These include higher efficiency facilities for LNG vaporization, additional compressors related to boil-off gas (BOG), an enhanced LNG transfer system, and LNG recirculation pumps.
Trans-Foreland said that the authorization of the cool down expansion project “will not be inconsistent with the public interest and will enhance the availability and reliability of natural gas supply in the southcentral Alaska region, which is forecasted to experience a supply deficit as early as 2027.”
“An authorization order by July 31, 2026 would facilitate Trans-Foreland’s ability to construct and place the cool down expansion project into service in advance of the forecasted supply shortfall in the region,” it said.
