Drift River Terminal Facility

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Cook Inlet Pipeline Co. - Drift River Terminal facility. Operated by Chevron Inc.

The Drift River terminal temporarily stores oil from about 10 oil platforms in Cook Inlet before the oil is pumped into tankers just offshore at the Christy Lee Platform. The tanks can store up to 1.9 billion barrels of oil.

www.chevron-pipeline.com/cookinlet.asp

yosemite.epa.gov/r10/cleanup.nsf/sites/driftriver

The tanks at the terminal are at risk of being inundated by lahar flash floods from eruptions of the nearby Redoubt Volcano. See volcanoes.usgs.gov/About/What/Monitor/Hydrologic/AFMRed...
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Coordinates:   60°35'52"N   152°10'7"W
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