Regulators to revise TAPS Quality Bank 07/22/2007
State commissioners, federal judges hear testimony in concurrent hearings on proposed cost adjustment to value of ANS crude
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wrapped up more than a week of concurrent hearings July 18 on how best to revise the processing cost adjustment to the heav...

EPA fines Flint Hills for clean air violations 12/17/2006
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Flint Hills Resources Alaska $15,867 for Clean Air Act emergency planning violations at the company's North Pole refinery The company has also agreed...

Alaska: Uncertainty looms downstream 08/13/2006
BP vows to help prevent crude shortages at in-state refineries that could result from shutdown at Prudhoe Bay field
When BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. decided Aug. 6 to shut down crude production at Prudhoe Bay indefinitely, Alaska refineries joined West Coast plants and others in scrambling to prevent possible shor...

Flint Hills seeks help from Legislature 05/07/2006
Company wants tariff change retroactivity removed from its royalty oil contract; DNR says this was part of a larger bargain
Flint Hills Resources Alaska has been working with the Department of Natural Resources to get changes in its royalty oil contract and has now turned to the Legislature. With the end of the regular ses...

Flint Hills investing $23 million to supply clean fuels to Alaska 11/27/2005
Flint Hills Resources Alaska LLC is investing $23 million to supply Alaskans with low sulfur fuels, the company has just announced. The investment will enable Flint Hills to fulfill its royalty oil co...

FERC limits retroactive refunds in decision 10/23/2005
Commission cites desire to meet stipulations of new federal law in TAPS Quality Bank case based on 1993 change in valuation
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Oct. 20 issued an order largely affirming an administrative law judge's initial decision involving a method for compensating shippers according to the quality...

Comments to RCA largely support ANGDA 10/02/2005
Flint Hills favors proposed repeal of sections of Alaska Pipeline Act; Anadarko largely in agreement; Enstar wants to know more
Comments received by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska largely support a request by the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority (ANGDA) for repeal of two sections of the Alaska Pipeline Act. The c...

RCA decides not to investigate TAPS rates 09/18/2005
Producers, shippers agree now is not the time: producers say judicial decision important now; shippers say defend rates you set
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska will not open a docket to investigate current rates for intrastate shipment of oil on the trans-Alaska pipeline. The commission took public comment on the issue Se...

Stevens uses legislation to chide FERC over ruling 12/05/2004
Administrative judge's ruling came in August in 15-year-old North Slope crude oil quality bank dispute
Through legislation, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens chastised the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a decision affecting Alaska refineries and major oil companies. Stevens, R-Alaska, inserted language...