Tariff from Alpine drops based on volume

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News

The Alpine Transportation Co. has filed a revised tariff rate with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska which drops the rate for transporting crude oil from the Alpine field to the Kuparuk River field from 67 cents per barrel to 41 cents per barrel. A Dec. 5 tariff filing also included an initial rate of 12 cents per barrel from a new receipt point at the Southern Miluveach unit.

In a revised Dec. 7 filing the company told RCA that based on discussions with commission staff it was withdrawing the tariff proposal for transportation from the Southern Miluveach unit and would seek approval of that rate in a separate tariff filing.

In its original filing the company said the reduction in rate for the line is “due primarily to projected throughput for 2019 being higher than the 2018 projected throughput used in setting the 2018 rates.”

The Alpine line carries production from that field and also from ConocoPhillips Alaska’s Greater Mooses Tooth 1 field in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. GMT1 came online in October with production for that month (the most recent for which data is available) averaging 7,754 barrels per day. Production from that field is expected to peak at 25,000 to 30,000 bpd.

Alpine Transportation Co. filed to establish an initial rate from the Southern Miluveach unit on Dec. 10, for 12 cents per barrel.

Brooks Range Petroleum Corp. is in the process of developing the Southern Miluveach unit, estimated to hold 33 million barrels of proven and probable light oil reserves, with peak production estimated at some 15,000 barrels per day, ATC told RCA when it filed for approval of a connection agreement and permit between ATC and Brooks Range Petroleum Corp.

- KRISTEN NELSON