[angkor]

It's less than 100 miles from the prospective ANWR drill site to Prudhoe Bay and the Alaska Pipeline. That's the amount of new pipeline that would need to be built.

The Aleyska Pipeline took 3 years for 700 miles (including across the Brooks Range, the Alaska Range, the Chugach, and hundreds of lakes, rivers and deep tundra). An ANWR "connector" to Prudhoe Bay is more or less a straight shot across open tundra with none of the complexities of Aleyska. It could probably be built in less than one year, thus providing almost instant access to ANWR output via the Valdez oil terminal.

The AK Pipeline is currently running at about 1/2 capacity, and figures I've seen indicate it can easily move another 500K barrels per day (some say more than that).

[janereinheimer]

Thank you for the map. It gets a little tiresome to listen to the politicians make the claim that it would take too long to get the oil from Alaska transport.

What are they thinking? Building another pipeline? Don’t they realize that, as you point out, there’s one already there and running at only half capacity.

[EdReform]

Bookmarking. Thanks for posting this info!

[EdReform]

Drilling in the Offshore