The Arctic Pilot Project

• Published in: Energy Exploration & Exploitation
• Main Author: Bailey, Richard A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 1983
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Melville Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014459878300200102; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014459878300200102

The Arctic Pilot Project (APP) is a transportation system designed to deliver 7.6 × 10 6 m 3 /day of natural gas from Melville Island in the Arctic Islands to a terminal location in Eastern Canada on a year-round basis using icebreaking liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. LNG was chosen as the cargo because of the abundance of natural gas in the Canadian Arctic and the fact that the LNG is a non-pollutant. The Project would provide experience in the movement of resources from the Arctic on the smallest economic scale. Eventhough the Project is small in scale compared to alternative energy projects, it would yearly provide enough gas to heat approximately 725 000 homes. It is the sponsors' belief that the Project is complimentary to other energy transportation systems, is highly flexible and does not commit the Canadian federal government to only marine transportation of resources. Of importance to government, the Project is environmentally benign and will have minimal impact on the peoples of the Arctic.