Wed, 03/03/2021 - 9:18am Prices for long-term supplies of natural gas from Cook Inlet remain high relative to much of the country but are inching downward based on the latest in a series of recently signed public contracts. Enstar Natural Gas Co. filed a contract with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska containing a starting price of $7.30 per thousand cubic feet, or mcf, of natural gas with Vision Resources LLC, the new owners of the North Fork Unit on the Kenai Peninsula. The RCA reviews and rules on supply contracts for regulated utilities. While the five-year gas sale and purchase agreement covers nearly 3 percent — about 1 billion cubic feet, or bcf, of gas per year — of the Southcentral gas utility’s annual demand, the starting price is also 3 percent less than the initial rate of $7.55 per mcf Enstar agreed to in a contract for the vast majority of its gas needs last May.