Two new pipelines working through RCA

As two complementary pipeline projects on the southern Kenai Peninsula near the end of their construction phases, both continue to work through their regulatory phases.

Kenai Kachemak Pipeline LLC recently installed a meter at its Enstar-Ninilchik Gate interconnection to accommodate supplies from the Anchor Point Pipeline, a new transmission line being constructed by the Alaska Pipeline Co., an affiliate of Enstar.

The Anchor Point Pipeline will connect to the North Fork Pipeline. Anchor Point Energy, a subsidiary of Armstrong Oil and Gas and its partners, is building the North Fork Pipeline to connect its North Fork unit to the Southcentral natural gas transmission grid.

KKPL recently filed information about the new receipt and delivery points with the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, and asked that the changes become effective Feb. 17.

In late 2010, Anchor Point Energy asked the RCA for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, the document required for a company to operate as a utility. In its application, Anchor Point Energy asked the RCA to waive certain filing requirements and to give it temporary authority to operate the pipeline, in order to conduct final tests.

In a Jan. 21 order, the RCA said it couldn’t offer a timeline for issuing a final ruling until it determined whether Anchor Point Energy’s application was complete, and that it couldn’t make that determination yet because of Anchor Point Energy’s waiver requests.

Anchor Point Energy would like to begin operations by Jan. 31. The RCA is taking comments on the application and waiver requests through Jan. 27.

—Eric Lidji