Cook Inlet Pipeline System
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Cook Inlet Pipeline System is an operating oil pipeline in Alaska, United States.[1][2]
Location
The pipeline runs from the Trading Bay Production Facility across Cook Inlet to the Kenai Refinery in Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.[3]
Project Details
- Operator: Harvest Alaska, LLC[4]
- Owner: Harvest Alaska, LLC[3]
- Parent company: Hilcorp Alaska, LLC[3]
- Capacity: 16,000 barrels per day[5]
- Length: 54 miles[4]
- Status: Operating[2]
- Start year: 2018[2]
Background
Cook Inlet Pipeline Co. filed for permission in June of 2018 with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska to begin shutting down the Drift River Oil Terminal in early 2019. Hilcorp was expecting to complete the $73 million project to reconfigure an existing underwater pipeline between Beluga and Ninilchik to carry oil instead of natural gas.[6]
The pipeline system re-routes oil from fields on the west side of Cook Inlet to the Kenai Refinery on the east side, eliminating the need for the Drift River Oil Terminal. The terminal was located near the active volcano Mount Redoubt. Decommissioning Drift River would "reduce the environmental hazards inherent in the marine transport of crude oil by tankers and the storage of large volumes of crude oil below an active volcano," the company said in filings. "The proposed system modifications will also substantially reduce the amount of oil that is stored in any one location, thereby mitigating the risk of a large spill of stored oil." Cook Inlet Pipeline Co. is a subsidiary of Harvest Alaska, which is the pipeline-owning subsidiary of Hilcorp.[6]
The re-purposed pipeline section was commissioned in October 2018.[2]
Articles and Resources
References
- ↑ Planned Pipelines, Pipeline News, accessed October 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Hilcorp replaces oil tankers with pipeline for Cook Inlet crude - Anchorage Daily News". www.adn.com. Retrieved 2026-01-08.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Harvest Alaska, Application for Pipeline Right-of Way Lease, Cook Inlet Gathering System (CIGGS) - A Marine Pipeline Conversion" (PDF). dog.dnr.alaska.gov. 2017-09-01. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-11-24. Retrieved 2026-01-07.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "NPMS Public Viewer". pvnpms.phmsa.dot.gov. Retrieved 2026-01-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ New Hilcorp Energy oil project expected to cut costs, Mat-su Valley Frontiersman, Oct. 30, 2018
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Company seeks to dismantle oil terminal on Cook Inlet shore, Anchorage Daily News, accessed October 2018
