AMERADA HESS PIPELINE v. REGULATORY COM'N

No. S-12230.

176 P.3d 667 (2008)

AMERADA HESS PIPELINE CORPORATION, BP Pipelines (Alaska) Inc., ConocoPhillips Transportation Alaska, Inc., ExxonMobil Pipeline Company, Koch Alaska Pipeline Company, LLC, Mobil Alaska Pipeline Company, and Unocal Pipeline Company, Appellants, v. REGULATORY COMMISSION OF ALASKA, Tesoro Alaska Company, and Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 15, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis R. Veerman, Pamela D. Weiss, Molly C. Brown, Guess & Rudd, P.C., Anchorage; Steven H. Brose, Steven Reed, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Washington, D.C.; Albert S. Tabor, Jr., John E. Kennedy, Vinson & Elkins, L.L.P., Houston, Texas, for Appellants Amerada Hess Pipeline Corporation, BP Pipeline (Alaska) Inc., ConocoPhillips Transportation Alaska, Inc., ExxonMobil Pipeline Company, Mobil Alaska Pipeline Company, and Unocal Pipeline Company.

Tina M. Grovier, Birch, Horton, Bittner & Cherot, Anchorage; John B. Rudolph, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Appellant Koch Alaska Pipeline Company, LLC.

Charles E. Cole, Law Offices of Charles E. Cole, Fairbanks; Stephan H. Williams, Anchorage, for Appellee Regulatory Commission of Alaska.

Robin O. Brena, David W. Wensel, Brena, Bell & Clarkson, P.C., Anchorage, for Appel, lee Tesoro Alaska Company.

Douglas S. Parker, Preston, Gates & Ellis LLP, Anchorage; Randolph L. Jones, Jr., Conner & Winters, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Appellee Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc.

Before: FABE, Chief Justice, MATTHEWS, EASTAUGH, and CARPENETI, Justices.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The Regulatory Commission of Alaska ("RCA") determined that the shipping rates charged by the owners of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline were unjust and unreasonable from 1997 through 2000 and ordered refunds for that period. The owners appealed to the superior court, which affirmed, and now appeal to this court. They make the following four arguments:

1. The RCA inappropriately based its rate calculations on depreciation data...

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