Endicott ROW amended to actual

The Alaska State Pipeline Coordinator’s Office has issued a proposed amendment to the right-of-way lease for the Endicott Pipeline on the North Slope, adding 1.18 acres of state land to the right of way.

BP Transportation (Alaska) Inc. requested the amendment in mid-July.

“The additional acreage is necessary to accommodate two areas of the existing pipeline outside the boundaries of the original right-of-way survey,” the pipeline coordinator said in a proposed decision which would add the acreage. The original survey was dated Jan. 22, 1986.

The lands to be added to the right of way are northeast of Deadhorse near Flow Station 2 in the Prudhoe Bay unit.

The amendment will accommodate two areas of the existing pipeline outside the boundaries as depicted in the original right-of-way survey.

“This request was prompted by an aerial photo that depicted the Endicott Pipeline outside of the Endicott Right-of-Way during the review for the Endicott tie-in project,” the pipeline coordinator said.

The office “requested clarification of the location of the existing pipeline and BTPA acknowledged it was incorrectly placed during construction.”

The pipeline coordinator said increasing the acreage in the right-of-way lease would “slightly increase” the annual rent the state receives (by $1,028) “and the pipeline would be depicted correctly in an approved survey, thus making the amendment beneficial to the state.”

—Petroleum News