text: In 1974 the gas was more valuable to use to produce oil and that situation remained until October 2015.    The State Agency that determines the highest and best use of our gas for the State's benefit is the AOGCC (Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission).  Until this last October, the AOGCC had never allowed release of the volumes of gas from the slope necessary to support a large gas line project.  Think of that when you reflect on how we spent upwards of $540 million on AGIA and hundreds of millions of more dollars on AKLNG when the State's had not sanctioned the release of the gas.