...Wednesday from Joseph Marushack, vice president of Alaska North Slope gas commercialization for Phillips Alaska, and Ken Konrad, BP Exploration's leader of gas efforts in Alaska. The committee was gathered in Anchorage for a two-day meeting...

...turning natural gas into synthetic crude by up to a fifth, and that could make it feasible to develop North Slope gas. Ken Konrad, leader of the company's Alaska Gas Group, said construction of the pilot gas-to-liquids plant will begin in...

...plant in Nikiski may soon export technology, too. "There will be a lot of brain-power assembled in Alaska," said Ken Konrad, BP vice president for Alaska gas. BP broke ground this month for the $86 million plant, which will test technology...

...energy is behind the gas pipeline, because that looks like the best way to commercialize Alaska natural gas," said Ken Konrad, BP vice president for Alaska gas. Early estimates put the cost of a pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the existing distribution...