Alaska gas line LLC says it did not secretly change its name
This is how the FERC website listed the Glenfarne letter to federal regulators to “change applicant name for the Alaska LNG project.” Glenfarne says the letter it submitted was not to change the applicant name, but to correct FERC documents that did not list 8 Star Alaska LLC as the applicant.
REVISED: “What is the new applicant name for Alaska LNG Project?” Sen. Cathy Giessel asked Glenfarne Vice President Adam Prestidge and AGDC President Frank Richards in an email Thursday afternoon.
“I want to be able to refer to the project accurately,” she wrote.
Giessel referred to a March 2 posting by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that said the company had applied for a name change, but the details were in a letter that was marked “privileged,” meaning it is a secret.
FERC had posted a document saying that Glenfarne had sent it a letter asking to “change applicant name for the Alaska LNG Project.”
Giessel mentioned the FERC filing in her legislative newsletter and I wrote a blog post early Thursday saying that 8 Star Alaska LLC had applied for a name change, but that the specifics were secret.
Prestidge replied to Giessel late Thursday afternoon by email to say that it was all a misunderstanding and there is no name change.
Prestidge said the document that the company submitted in secret was to correct errors in how the name of the project was listed on federal paperwork filed with FERC.
“To be clear up front, we have not changed the name of the project or the permit holder, which remains ‘8 Star Alaska LLC,’” he wrote to Giessel and numerous other legislators.
“The FERC filing March 2, 2026 was made to correct a data issue within the docket's eFiling system that was causing our Alaska LNG Project FERC docket number to incorrectly list Alaska Gasline Development Corporation as the sole applicant without allowing the correct 8 Star Alaska, LLC to be selected,” said Prestidge in an email copied to numerous legislators.
“Additionally, the ‘signer’ was showing project filings as “Texas LNG Brownsville, LLC (as agent)” which is not accurate, and is a data error related to the fact that Glenfarne is connected to both projects (Texas LNG and Alaska LNG).
“The staff in charge of the FERC eFiling system said we should simply file a privileged letter to the docket to correct the errors. When both issues are corrected, the eFiling system will allow the correct the ‘filer’ and 'signer' to be selectable and our docket filings will correctly show 8 Star Alaska, LLC with the reference to Texas LNG deleted,” Prestidge said.
FERC should never have told Glenfarne to file a secret letter. Glenfarne should have filed a public letter to correct the record.
We know very little about 8 Star Alaska LLC because the Dunleavy administration, through the gasline development corporation, has not made transparency a priority. Surely the new name of the venture should be public information.
8 Star Alaska LLC is a Delaware company, that is 75 percent owned by Glenfarne Alaska LNG LLC.
Glenfarne Alaska LNG LLC is also a Delaware company. It is owned by Glenfarne Services LLC, which is based at 292 Madison Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, N.Y.
Glenfarne Services LLC is not registered with the Alaska corporations office. It is owned by the Glenfarne Group LLC.
Glenfarne Group LLC says it is a “New York headquartered, privately held and privately funded proprietary investment platform that seeks to generate superior risk adjusted returns from investments in the broader Real Asset space, which includes service providers and industrial suppliers within Transportation, Infrastructure, Government Services, Energy and other Recurring assets such as Resources and Real Estate.”
The state-owned AGDC gave 75 percent of 8 Star Alaska to Glenfarne. 8 Star Alaska was created as a private subsidiary that holds all the planning work, engineering, research data, rights of way, permits, etc. for the proposed gasline project.
In exchange for the 75 percent share, Glenfarne agreed to pursue the project to where a final investment decision on whether to build the pipeline will be made. That work was estimated to be valued at about $150 million.
The company had planned to reach a final investment decision before the end of 2025, but it has been delayed. It might happen this month, Frank Richards, the president of AGDC said recently.
The AGDC has yet to release redacted versions of the governance structure agreements it signed with Glenfarne that have been requested by Giessel and other legislators.
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This is the notice Glenfarne sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission about the “privileged” letter it filed with the commission that FERC said was to change the name of the pipeline applicant. Glenfarne said late Thursday that it was all a big misunderstanding.