Tesoro Alaska has a cracking plant located on the Kenai Peninsula just outsie
the town of Kenai . It processes crude piped in from the Cook Inlet Oil Field
ocean platforms  which lie just a few miles out from the plant in the Cook
Inlet waters. It's interesting to look out over the inlet late afternoon or
twilight and seen the big flares burning off the waste gas.

This Tesoro plant definitely uses only USA crude. A pipeline from the plant to
the big name storage tanks in Anchorage  supplies the liquid fuels needed by
the public. Natural gas is piped in from the Inlet oil fields as well.

The plant on the Kenai has been there for years, and the fuels supplied have
been pretty stable, but in recent years there is growing concern that the
Inlet field end is near, both for oil and natural gas.

Alaska has huge natural gas reserves, and probably lots of oil as well. The
crude in ANWR is a drop in the bucket nationally, witness how fast the North
Slope crude was used up. The flow through the Alyeska Pipeline is down to a
trickle, now, and even though there is good infrastructure to bring ANWR oil
to market, it is probably best applied to the needs of that isolated state. It
would last for years for a small population like Alaska but will be gone
almost overnight if injected into the national oil need.

Maybe Tesoro will someday process the ANWR oil for local sales, but will ANWR
do anything soon?, I doubt it. There are to many other ways.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

"Alder, Anne M" wrote:

> Just a fact:
>
> Tesoro and Amoco both receive their oil from the United States and Canada.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Sibley [mailto:Sibleyjm@AOL.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 8:40 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: FW: oil
>
> i have always like Conoco....here i come, chevron, i quit!!!!!