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Interior’s Burgum Floats Shipping Gas From Alaska North Slope
US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Oct. 6, 2025 in Washington.
Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesUS Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum floated the concept of storing natural gas produced in Alaska’s North Slope and shipping it directly from there, a proposal he said has drawn interest from unnamed foreign investors.
“It could be a second project, just tapping into that gas field and figuring out a way to move it out by ship,” Burgum said Friday during remarks at an event held by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington nonpartisan research institute.