Regulatory process launched for 30 more years of trans-Alaska oil pipeline operations

By: Yereth Rosen

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: August 27, 2026

Words: 606

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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Forty-nine years after it began transporting crude oil from Prudhoe Bay, the Trans Alaska Pipeline System is due for a regulatory renewal that will allow it to keep operating on federal lands into future decades.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has kicked off the process to renew the right-of-way agreement for the pipeline.

About half of the territory that the 800-mile pipeline system crosses is federal land, so a federal authorization …

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