PADD 5 · Alaska · No pipelines in, none out — the detached district

Eight hundred miles of pipe — and most of it leaves the state.

North Slope crude rides TAPS 800 miles to Valdez and leaves by tanker; what stays is topped into jet and diesel. Anchorage runs on Cook Inlet gas — and the bush burns barged‑in diesel.

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Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude

$— /bbl
annual average
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Imported product · where it lands

refined-product imports

Alaska‑made fuel · where it goes

in-state refined product
FUTURE

Alaska pumps far more oil than it burns — the crude rides 800 miles south to Valdez and sails away, while remote villages pay some of the highest fuel prices in America.

Flows
Crude — TAPS
Crude export — tanker
Refined product
Barged to the bush
Cook Inlet gas
Facilities
Slope production
Offshore platform
Refinery
Terminal — stores & ships
Gas-fired power
Military base
Demand center
Marine import / export
Vulnerability
Exposure — amber (moderate) → red (chokepoint)
Rescue — surge covering a loss (scenarios)
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Data status & sources ⓘReading the map. Ribbon width & particle density scale with annual volume (√ scaling). The fat blue spine is TAPS carrying North Slope crude to Valdez; the dashed blue leg is tanker export. Orange is refined product \u2014 which stays in-state (Petro Star Valdez tops crude for Anchorage, and from there the Bush); Alaska is a net importer of refined fuel, so Southeast (Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan) is fed by marine barge from the Pacific Northwest (Anacortes / Burnaby). Teal is Cook Inlet gas to Southcentral power and the (mostly idle) Kenai LNG terminal.

Data status. In‑state demand is anchored to EIA Form EIA‑782C Prime Supplier annual sales (thousand gal/day): Total Gasoline (series C100050021) and Total Distillate+Kerosene (C290050021), 2000–2021, with withheld cells (2004–05, 2019–20) interpolated on the EIA SEDS shape. EIA‑782C was discontinued after 2021 (“Release Date: 6/1/2022; Next Release Date: TBD”), so 2022–25 extends from SEDS Table CT2 anchors (gasoline flat at ~29 trillion Btu; distillate +15% rebound, 2021→23). Jet fuel is deliberately the SEDS in‑state series (~600–700 thousand gal/day) — the prime‑supplier jet series (~1,800–2,150) is dominated by ANC trans‑Pacific cargo uplift (833 / 860 / 916.6 M gal, FY23–25, AK DOT&PF), a story told on the Anchorage card rather than by inflating the whole map ≈3×. North Slope throughput follows the real ~1.0→0.45 million b/d decline; ANS price tracks real annual averages, monthly points illustrative. No refined product leaves Alaska; crude‑export destinations and refined‑import sources are modeled from documented trends.
Sources. EIA Form EIA‑782C, Prime Supplier Report (eia.gov/petroleum/marketing/prime); EIA State Energy Data System, Table CT2 (Alaska); Alaska DOT&PF Sustainable Aviation Fuel office (ANC uplift); Alaska DNR / AOGCC (TAPS throughput); McDowell Group / Port of Alaska Long Range Fuel Forecast (Nov 2020).