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“MAKE IT MONDAY” FORUM 2022 TAPS Update with Alyeska Interim President Danika Yeager Monday, August 1 – Noon to 1 pm – Dena’ina Center This is a big year for the Trans Alaska Pipeline System as TAPS celebrates its 45th anniversary of operations and the first flow of Alaska North Slope crude oil from Pump Station 1. The day of this presentation, Aug. 1, marks the date in 1977 when Arco M/V Juneau departed the Valdez Marine Terminal with the first oil delivered through TAPS. Alyeska Interim President Danika Yeager will talk about TAPS’ remarkable legacy in Alaska and share an update on today’s operations and what’s to come. |
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Another year of service rolls over for the TAPS project without a gas pipeline in service. Injection of produced gas continues to be injected into the ground in Prudhoe Bay. Point Thomson production of NGLs is now started.
Is it not time to look under a different rock to search for new solutions for what is only 810 miles of pipeline to the Kenai Peninsula. Half this length has been dogged with project showstopping costs of countering frost heave and ground melting in the transit through permafrost. Gas flow temperature differentials are the root cause of design issuesand mitigation problems
Considering the ingredients to the conundrum would it not be possible to consider an alternative design philosophy and look at liquid gas delivery through the pipeline within a few degrees of the ground temperature holding the pipeline in place?
We ar not talking of LNG here in a cryogenic temperature and pressure regime – rather a mixture of Natural Gas and NGLs from these two Northern fields configured to remain in the liquid state at pipeline pressures and flowing with only a few degrees of temperature rise between pumping stations from pipeline friction.
Run the hydraulics!
As an old transcontinental mixed gas pipeline designer, aware of new approaches combined with recently filed LNG process patents I can see the $50 billion capex associated with recent studies for pipeline and plant facilities devoid of mitigation issues to move gas South plummeting to around $35 billion or less. This used to be deemed economic. Alaska can once again contemplate needed funds going into State Government coffers and having a long desired NGL processing infrastructure in Nikiski
Well stated Ian. You deserve thanks for creatively forging ahead with what could be an advanced economic concept. I regret not having read and posted a reply to your offering sooner. Dave