Digital gas pipeline library launched

The Office of the Federal Coordinator for an Alaska North Slope natural gas pipeline has posted a digital library that compiles, consolidates, organizes and preserves many of the reports, maps, analyses and other work on proposed North Slope gas pipeline projects going back to the 1970s.

Federal Coordinator Larry Persily said in a Dec. 27 statement that the library, called “The Pipe Files — Alaska Gas Line,” is available through the Federal Coordinator website at www.arcticgas.gov.

“We have started with about 500 documents and plan to add hundreds more as we build the collection,” Persily said. “We have invited federal and state agencies to help us add to The Pipe Files and expect it will grow much larger. We’re still refining the search features and invite users to send us their feedback,” he said.

The federal gas line office contracted with the Alaska Resources Library and Information Services, ARLIS, at the University of Alaska Anchorage to build the collection, digitize older documents, design the search software and maintain the server for the gas line library.

Canada’s Northern Pipeline Agency is contributing work it has collected on an Alaska gas pipeline project through Canada. All items in the digital library are in the public domain include items from the OFC’s own files, from ARLIS and the University of Alaska Anchorage Consortium Library.

Federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Alaska Department of Revenue, have also provided material.

—Petroleum News