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11-2 Pourchot served as master of
ceremonies at the Anchorage Museum function, attended by top echelons of
government and industry leaders. He was generous with his praise saying,
"The renewal process is a success story in federal-state cooperation and
efficiency. JPO brings together seven State and six Federal agencies with
related management responsibility or regulatory authority for the Trans-Alaska
Pipeline System and other oil and gas pipelines in Alaska and provide “one-stop”
shopping for lease re In Alyeska
Pipeline Service Company President, David Wight (NGP Photo-left, with
ConocoPhillips' Kevin Meyers and ExxonMobil's Jack Williams-right) said, "TAPS
has met operating standards,
BP Pipelines
President Al Bolea (NGP Photo) said the TAPS Owners started preparing for
the renewal
ConocoPhillips Vice President-Pipelines, Meg Yaege (NGP Photo) is
incoming chair of the TAPS Jack Williams (NGP Photo-above, with Wight), who manages ExxonMobil's Alaska investment, thanked Governor Knowles and Commissioner Pourchot, then said, "ExxonMobil, in conjunction with the other owners, is progressing engineering and permitting activities for the Point Thompson project. If it is developed," he said, "this project will recover gas condensate, projected to peak at 75 kBD, for shipment to markets through TAPS. Reauthorization of the TAPS right-of-way is important to the economic basis for this project that is estimated to cost over $1 billion." He said the renewal, "... will support continued investment, job creation, utilization of local goods and services and provide government revenues through taxes and royalties." (Williams remarks) Unocal's
Chuck Pierce (NGP Photo, 7-02) said that, "safety and environmental
protection have bee P Doyon BLM State
Director Henri Bisson (NGP Photo) made remarks similar to those given the
Resource
Note: We include
this oil pipeline coverage and photos of th Construction
of the pipeline took place from 1974 to 1977 and has been called a "modern
wonder of the world." This engineering feat was recently put to the test
during a magnitude 7.9 earthquake. The 800-mile-long oil pipeline supports over
95 percent of the oil production in Alaska. The oil industry directly and
indirectly provides a third of the jobs in the state. About $6 billion dollars
a year in personal income can be attributed to the benefits of the oil industry.
The Bureau of Land Management announced last week the completion of the final
environment
11-22-02. Valdez Star by Pat Lynn--In a strange turn of events, the Alaska Gasline Port Authority, which was formed to build a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez, contributed $15,000 toward an effort to defeat that same measure at the polls Nov. 5. The $15,000 payment to the anti-pipeline drive came to light during a check of records at the Alaska Public Offices Commission which keeps track of campaign spending. The check was sent to the Alaska Support Industry Alliance which created a lobbying effort known as "People Against Pipeline Politics" which spent $40,000 total in a failed effort to defeat proposition No. 3 which calls for an all-Alaska pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez. Despite their efforts, the measure was adopted by the voters by a margin of 61 to 38. The $15,000 contribution to fight the gasline to Valdez caught Valdez members of the Port Authority flat-footed. "Are you sure about that," said Mayor Bert Cottle when told about the contribution by a Star reporter Monday night. "I know we talked about that but nothing happened." Councilman Dave Cobb, one of the creators of the gasline Port Authority and, like Cottle, member of the board of directors, said, "we haven't sent a check to that effect. I'm not aware of any money that changed hands." But, in fact, a $15,000 check from the Port Authority did go to the lobbying effort against the pipeline to Valdez. It was signed by Charlie Cole, a member of the board from Fairbanks, and sent to the lobbying group by Rhonda Boyles, Mayor of the Fairbanks/North Star borough, who is also a member of the Port Authority board of directors. Mayor Boyles did not return our phone calls for comment on Friday of last week. The $15,000 contribution towards defeat of Proposition No. 3, the pipeline measure, paints a confusion picture at Valdez city hall. Late last summer, the City of Valdez, gave $20,000 to Scott Heyworth, the Anchorage longshoreman who led a successful petition drive to get Proposition No. 3 on the ballot. In effect, Valdez city fathers find themselves on both sides of the fence--in favor of a pipeline to Valdez and against a pipeline to Valdez. Valdez city manager Dave Dengel, who also serves as executive director of the Port Authority, remembers things differently. He says the board voted unanimously at a telephone Oct. 2 meeting to make the $15,000 contribution. The Port Authority, he said, favors the Y-line concept where a natural gas line would run south to Delta and then along the Alaska Highway into Canada with a spur line to Valdez. The board felt that ballot Proposition No. 3 "would just muddy the waters." The vote of those present to send the $15,000 to the lobbying group was unanimous, he said. The Port Authority, said Dengel, "supports the Y-line proposal because one needs the other to be economically sound." The man who led the battle against Proposition 3 was Larry Houle, general manager of the Alaska Industry Support Alliance. "The Port Authority got all excited
when they saw us coming out against the plan," he said. He did agree, however, that the overwhelming voter approval of the all-Alaska natural gas line poses a dilemma for state lawmakers must snow grapple with the issue.
3-14: CALGARY -(Dow Jones)- No one wants to say the game is over, but it looks like only sudden death overtime might save the volatile Alaska natural gas pipeline play - and its benefits for Canadian interests in the Yukon. The latest U.S. move requiring producers to build a pipeline along the more expensive Alaska Highway route has Canadians assuming a fake hardiness, like a coach trying to rally a losing team. "I think the Yukon is like the third guy who comes into a fight in the Stanley Cup playoffs," Yukon Premier Pat Duncan said at a conference in Calgary on Friday. "It's often the third man in who ends the fight and gets everybody's attention back to the puck. I can tell you from the Yukon , we came to play." The sparsely populated and rugged territory has much to win from an Alaska pipeline running through its lands on the way to Alberta and the U.S. One Yukon - sponsored study indicates an Alaska Highway pipeline project could bring the territory 32,000 person years of employment, and C$10.3 billion in business investment for Canada . But analysts are saying political meddling by Alaska and the U.S. will kill northern natural gas prospects. For example, the so-called "southern" route chosen by the U.S. Senate precludes alternative plans linking to Canada in the north, either by land or under the Beaufort Sea into the Mackenzie Delta. And while it would still transverse Yukon , British Columbia and Alberta, bringing economic benefits to all, the massive undertaking to bring Alaska 's 4 billion cubic feet a day production south has already been branded by producers as too expensive. In Washington , Canadian officials have been urging both the U.S. administration and Congress not to play favorites with any route. "In Canada 's view, North American energy markets are better served if industry is allowed to determine the nature and timing of pipeline development," Rodney Moore, Canadian embassy spokesman said Friday. "Industry hasn't made a specific commitment to a pipeline proposal, and we know that mandating a routing of a pipeline or subsidizing its construction through loan guarantees, guaranteed prices or other means, would certainly have an effect on, or distort North American energy markets." Canada was already concerned a flood of Alaska natural gas would strand the more modest reserves found in the Mackenzie Delta. However, a proposed pipeline through the Northwest Territories now seems to have more momentum than an Alaskan one, be it southern, or northern through the Beaufort Sea. While Duncan believes an over-the-top offshore route would meet enough opposition to slam the brakes on northern gas development, she emphasized the North American market is big enough for both Canadian and American pipelines. "I believe two complementary projects, staged over time, are good for the north, for industry, and for consumers," she said. And timing, as any team player knows, is everything. Natural gas demand is expected to reach 30 trillion cubic feet a year in North America by 2020, from about 23 trillion cubic feet at present. Northern natural gas is seen as needed to feed the incremental demand fueled mostly by generation projects and increased calls for cleaner burning fuel. Alternative fuel sources like liquid natural gas and coalbed methane could challenge that position, and increase the odds against tapping into the region's vast natural gas resources. Political oppositions closed the window of opportunity to develop northern natural gas in the 1970s, and northerners fully realize it could happen again. "It's clear to me, having lived through it once before, and representing people who lived through it that we don't want to go that route again," Duncan told Dow Jones Newswires. "It's time the North was given its rightful place." Providing regulatory clarity is one crucial step to provide certainty for producers and investors, she said. Resolving aboriginal land claim issues and having realistic expectations for development are also crucial. BP Plc. (T.BP), ExxonMobil (X.XOC) and Phillips Petroleum (NYSE: P - news) Co . (P) have already invested $100 million in a feasibility study to be released at the end of the month. But their protests that any pipeline route out of Alaska is too expensive are seen by some as postulating to wring out huge tax incentives to shore up a 15% rate of return on a natural gas system. Oil executives and government officials are playing hardball behind cabinet doors, with producers cutting staff in Anchorage as a warning they might pull out, and politicians coming up with schemes that already have analysts checking out possible violations to the North American Free Trade Act. "The (price guarantee) is quite outrageous," Harvie Andre, with ArctiGas Resources Corporation, said in Calgary . "And one is tempted to dismiss it as reflecting only ... political maneuverings." Andre, a former federal minister, is promoting a sub-sea route under Prudhoe Bay, linking Alaska gas with Canadian. The ArctiGas proposal has U.S. backers, offers 100% aboriginal ownership, and claims to be the cheapest route to southern markets without prejudicing Mackenzie Delta production. A Senate-mandated route and a state bill barring offshore construction would take Canada completely out of the loop, Andre said. "If you add to that a guaranteed floor price for Alaska producers, the damage to Canadian interests would be enormous," he said. -By Dina O'Meara, Dow Jones Newswires; 403-531-2912 dina.omeara@dowjones.com (This story was originally published by Dow Jones Newswires and forwarded to Northern Gas Pipelines by a Canadian Reader.) 2-6: CALLING ALL EXPLORATION COMPANIES: The Minerals Management Service is seeking companies interested in exploring Norton Basin for oil and gas, possibly as a means to bring natural gas to western Alaska communities. MMS is proposing a new process for leasing federal OCS tracts in this frontier area. "The areas off Western Alaska, although largely unexplored, may contain substantial natural gas resources that could be used for local communities, as well as export," MMS Alaska Regional Director John Goll said. "Communities, such as Nome, are seeking new energy sources to improve their economic outlook. They are intrigued about the possibilities this sale could offer. What we hope is some enterprising company can find an economical way to make this happen." The Call for Information and Nominations is the first step in an 18-month "special interest" process. The Call, published in the Federal Register on January 22, 2002, seeks comments on the proposal from industry and the public and requests that industry nominate small, very specific areas where they are willing to commit to exploration. MMS will use the information received to make the decision whether to proceed with leasing. If there is no industry interest this year, MMS will defer the sale for one year and reissue the Call next year. This process will continue throughout the 2002-2007 5-Year Program until there is sufficient interest to hold a sale and that the area nominated is deemed appropriate for leasing. Only one round of leasing will occur during this 5-Year Program. If a company is interested, MMS will ask them to identify the area of interest. MMS would then proceed through steps to hold a sale, with |
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resident
of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Carl Marrs (NGP Photo), remarked that this
renewal signing constituted one of Governor Knowles' legacies after 8 years in
office and said that "TAPS is central to Alaska solving its fiscal challenges."
Marrs said he was in high school when the original lease was signed.
"Today sets the stage for the next generation." He said the pipeline
allows Alaska Native people to live in 'both worlds', stay in Alaska, maintain
cultures and provide a subsistence lifestyle.
