{"id":2657,"date":"2026-10-14T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:03:59","slug":"trump-says-taiwan-agrees-to-buy-30-of-lng-from-alaska-pipeline-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2657","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Taiwan agrees to buy 30% of LNG from Alaska pipeline project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taiwan has agreed to buy 30% of \u200cthe liquefied natural gas from a pipeline project in Alaska, US President Donald Trump<\/a> told a rally in the state on Tuesday, but the deal terms were not immediately clear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taiwan has committed to investing $4.4 billion in the development of the pipeline, said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, \u200bwho also appeared at the rally organised by the Republican National Committee.<\/p>\n

Taiwan\u2019s economy ministry, which is in charge \u200bof energy policy, had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n

Asked about Trump\u2019s comments, Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai told \u2060reporters that the government\u2019s job is to \u201cstabilise the entire energy supply and build its resilience, like governments everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s remarks \u200bcome after Taiwan officials said in February they would ramp up<\/a> purchases of US natural gas to constitute about a \u200bthird of the island\u2019s imported supply this year, and reduce purchases from other countries.<\/p>\n

Taiwan state energy firm CPC Corp signed an agreement<\/a> with Alaska Gasline Development Corp last year to buy LNG and invest in the pipeline project.<\/p>\n

Alaska\u2019s governor said last year that Taiwan signed<\/a> a \u200bletter of intent to buy 6 million metric tons of LNG per annum from the project.<\/p>\n

The investment would ensure Taiwan\u2019s \u200benergy security, President Lai Ching-te said at the time. Trump\u2019s comments did not make it clear whether a final deal had been \u200csigned.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Up to 20 million tons of LNG exports a year<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Last year, Taiwan Presidential Office Secretary-General Pan Men-an visited the site of the proposed LNG project in Alaska that the Trump administration has been pushing hard to allies in Asia as a supply option.<\/p>\n

If built, the Alaska LNG<\/a> project will export up to 20 million tons of the superchilled gas a year.<\/p>\n

So far \u200b, it has lined up agreements \u200bcovering 13 million tons \u2060a year from buyers in Asia and French major TotalEnergies.<\/p>\n

It needs agreements for another 3 million tons and must turn them into binding deals in order to line \u200bup financing for the project.<\/p>\n

It would open direct access for US-made LNG to Asian \u200bmarkets, including Taiwan \u2060, without having to go through the Panama Canal or around the Horn of Africa, reducing transit time and costs.<\/p>\n

Taiwan has pledged to massively ramp up its purchases from the United States, including energy, to reduce a yawning trade surplus that has \u2060angered Washington.<\/p>\n

Trump \u200bsaid last month that South Korea had agreed to invest in the $54 \u200bbillion pipeline<\/a> for the Alaska LNG project, but Seoul said it was not yet set in stone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taiwan has agreed to buy 30% of \u200cthe liquefied natural gas from a pipeline project in Alaska, US President Donald Trump told a rally in the state on Tuesday, but the deal terms were not immediately clear. Taiwan has committed to investing $4.4 billion in the development of the pipeline, said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, \u200bwho also appeared at the rally organised by the Republican National Committee. Taiwan\u2019s economy ministry, which is in charge \u200bof energy policy, had no immediate comment. Asked about Trump\u2019s comments, Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai told…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}