BP needs to get the message.  Just like Exxon.   They don`t give a rat`s patoot about Alaska. BP tried to sell it`s Alaska holdings to Russia!, but we had started the embargo against them for invading Crimea Ukraine and parts of Georgia.  BP is strapped for cash and is more than happy to let the state do the sales and marketing, and just collect SB21 tax-free oil and gas..

We are done being played just to get our high quality surplus gas to ourselves, as well as a growth "anchor customer (Japan?)" market. 
The largest growth market for natural gas on the planet is the Asian-Pacific region and we are the closest most reliable supplier.  
Exxon knew it all the while, but places like Qatar tell them "drill or leave".  
In Alaska, it`s lease, and extort concessions,..  then do the job, maybe.. if we take them to court like we had to in order to get them to develop Point Thomson`s gas.

http://www.adn.com/nation-world/2016/09/02/exxon-ignores-near-term-glut-to-play-liquefied-gas-long-game.