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Joe Balash
23:36 - 23:55
"What we've looked at is our 80,000 barrels a day from PICA is going to reduce the TAPS tariff by more than $1 per barrel. In the first 10 years."
“What we've looked at is our 80,000 barrels a day from PICA is going to reduce the TAPS tariff by more than $1 per barrel. In the first 10 years.”
- Speaker
- Joe Balash
- Timestamp
- 23:36 – 23:55
- Source
- RDC_2026_10_01_1
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 5, 2026
From the transcript
And so when you put more barrels in that pipeline, the rate that they charge, the tariff goes down on a per barrel basis. What we've looked at is our 80,000 barrels a day from PICA is going to reduce the TAPS tariff by more than $1 per barrel. In the first 10 years. Well, that's like a dollar per barrel increase in the price. So that flows through royalties, production taxes.
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