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To: LindyBill who wrote (256094)	6/29/2008 2:23:07 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 793866

North slope production is in decline now and thats no longer an issue. While still an important partof U.S. supply, Alaskan oil production has declined from its 1988 peak of just over 2 million barrels per day to 864 thousand barrels per day in 2005, with all but 20 thousand barrels per dayproduced on the North Slope. .... West Coast refineries in California and Washington have been the primary market for Alaskan crude since the inception of North Slope production. Before 1995, when the prohibitionon the export of Alaskan crude was lifted by Congress, any Alaskan crude that was not used in Alaska, Hawaii, or the U.S. West Coast was shipped to other U.S. markets, mainly the U.S. Gulf Coast. Following the lifting of the export ban, the West Coast remained by far the dominantmarket for Alaskan crude, although some Alaska oil was exported through April 2000. Since 2000, with the exception of a single export shipment made in 2004, all Alaska crude not consumed within the state has been shipped to U.S. refiners on the West Coast and in Hawaii. As production in Alaska has declined, the share of crude input to West Coast refineriesthat is supplied by Alaska oil has also fallen (Figure 2). In 2005, oil refineries in California and Washington received an average of 748 thousand barrels per day from Alaska, 32 percent of their total crude oil receipts of 2.368 million barrels per day. Other domestic production, primarilyfrom California, provided 30 percent of crude receipts, and imports provided 38 percent. This reflects a substantial reduction in the role of Alaska crude compared to 1996, when refineries inthese two states received an average of 1.164 million barrels per day of crude from Alaska, 4accounting for 50 percent of their total crude supply. A decade ago, imports provided only 13 percent of crude supply to California and Washington refineries. ... eia.doe.gov