CLH Pipeline System the GPSS and also gained from the surplus of income over expenditure that OPA used to generate from running the GPSS. The sale did not include the six coastal Oil Fuel Depots owned by the MoD, which continued to be operated and maintained by the residual OPA. Following its acquisition by CLH, the GPSS was subsequently renamed the CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS). Since CLH have taken over the ownership of the GPSS a number of the pipelines that make up the system have been closed down. CLH Pipeline System The CLH Pipeline System (CLH-PS), formerly the Government Pipelines and Storage
Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System cost $1.4 billion. The percentage of the pipeline owned by various companies has changed over time, but as of 2009, the primary owner was BP, which controls 46.93 percent of the pipeline. Second is ConocoPhillips Transportation Alaska Inc. with 28.29 percent, followed in order by ExxonMobil (20.34 percent), Koch Alaska Pipeline Company (3.08 percent), and Unocal Pipeline Company (1.36 percent). The pipeline also has had a human toll. Thirty-two Alyeska or contract workers were killed during the construction project. That figure does not include common carrier fatalities. Since the pipeline began operating in 1977, 10 people have been killed while