RCA grants final connection approvals
Petroleum News
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has issued orders granting connection permits and approving connection agreements between Oliktok Pipeline Co. and ConocoPhillips Alaska and BP Exploration (Alaska).
The orders, dated Jan. 17, grant applications filed by Oliktok Pipeline for a connection permit for the existing connection between the Oliktok Pipeline and the Kuparuk River unit, and for an existing connection between Oliktok and the Prudhoe Bay unit.
Oliktok filed the application for approval of an existing connection between the Oliktok Pipeline and the KRU and for approval of a related connection agreement between Oliktok and ConocoPhillips Alaska in July. The Oliktok Pipeline is a 16-inch line originating at Skid 50 in the Prudhoe Bay unit, near Pump Station No. 1 of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and terminating at Central Processing Facility No. 1 in the KRU. The line has been in place since 1985, and transported natural gas from 1985 to 1988, natural gas liquids from 1995 to 2014 and natural gas from 2014 through 2016. There was no approved connection permit or connection agreement. Oliktok and ConocoPhillips signed a connection agreement in July.
The line is authorized to move either natural gas or NGLs and has been moving NGLs since late September.
Oliktok also filed in July for a connection permit for the existing connection between the Oliktok Pipeline and the PBU and for approval of the related connection agreement between Oliktok and BP. Oliktok and BP signed a connection agreement in May.
Both orders are the final decisions in the proceedings.
- Petroleum News
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