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

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.

2024fiscal year
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Alaska North Slope (ANS) crude

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annual avg · ANS West Coast
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Imported product · where it lands

refined-product imports

Alaska‑made fuel · where it goes

in-state refined product
FY2024
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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 measured, not modeled: EIA State Energy Data System (SEDS), Alaska annual consumption — motor gasoline (MGTCP), distillate fuel oil (DFTCP) and jet fuel (JFTCP), converted from thousand barrels at 42 gal/bbl. SEDS publishes 1960–2024 with no gaps; the map carries FY1977–2024 and holds the last published year forward. No gross‑up divisor and no interpolated cells — each year is the published figure. Jet includes Anchorage international uplift, because that fuel is imported to Alaska, stored in Alaska tank farms and loaded into aircraft at Anchorage: it is flow through the state, and the Anchorage card carries the cargo‑hub detail (833 / 860 / 916.6 M gal, FY23–25, AK DOT&PF).

The regional split is modeled, and the state total is not. Alaska publishes no measured fuel series below the state level — its motor‑fuel tax is collected from distributors statewide, not by borough — so the five demand bubbles divide the measured state total by borough population (Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis, annual estimates FY1977–2025), with the rural figure as the exact residual so the five always sum to the state total. Population is a real annual measurement, but it measures people, not gallons: the split moves with where Alaskans actually live, and it is not a count of fuel burned in each place. Where a state does publish fuel by place — Hawaiʻi reports taxed gallons by county — that measurement drives the split instead. 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).