There are also vast offshore fields in the Gulf coast of Fla. The DEP has
been ordered by the state supreme court to issue drilling permits to
existing lease holders and they still have not been issued.
I always thought the states could not take away property without adequate
compensation.
-Arthur
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers" <jhrodgers@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: FW: FW: oil

> 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!!!!!