Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry Looking for natural gas, not oil in Alaska Explorers magazine preview: Gardes aims to produce, sell natural gas, a clean burning fuel, plus build gas powered infrastructure Kay Cashman Petroleum News Bob Gardes of Lafayette, Louisiana, entered Alaska last year with the three-fold purpose of becoming a natural gas producer by acquiring bypassed and/or underdeveloped gas deposits in the Cook Inlet basin, securing off-take commitments to sell gas to Alaska utilities and large industrial end users on a long-term basis, and developing, building and operating gas and power infrastructure that supports the use of the clean burning fuel.