(2 Jun 2025)
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Deadhorse, Alaska – 2 June 2025
1. ++MUTE++ Aerial showing start of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Pump Station 1
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wright, Energy Secretary:
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"Today oil is the largest source of energy on the planet and the fastest growing source of energy on a planet is natural gas. You have the big two right here, let’s double oil production, build the big beautiful twin and we will help energize the world and we will strengthen our country and strengthen our families."
3. Wide of pipeline and Pump Station 1 from car
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Wright, Energy Secretary:
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"President Trump wants to see the flows through taps doubled. The oil is here. The discoveries are here. If we free Alaska and the people here, we’re going to more than double the oil flow through the pipeline and build the big, beautiful twin, the natural gas pipeline from the North Slope."
5. Trump delegation posing for pictures
6, SOUNDBITE (English) Doug Burgum, Interior Secretary:
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"And the innovation that is there that built this pipeline in two years and two months. President Trump is challenging us. He does not accept that it will take a decade to build an LNG pipeline. He doesn’t accept it because he knows that America and part of American greatness is getting back to what we did before, which is building remarkable things with innovation, with speed, and with care."
7. Aerials of Pump Station 1
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Doug Burgum, Interior Secretary:
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"And when we can have enough energy for ourselves and then sell energy to our friends and allies, they don’t have to buy it from our adversaries. That makes the world a more peaceful place."
9. Area around Pump Station from car
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump wants to double the amount of oil coursing through Alaska’s vast pipeline system and build a massive natural gas project as its “big, beautiful twin,” a top administration official said Monday while touring a prolific oil field near the Arctic Ocean.
The remarks by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright came as he and two other Trump Cabinet members — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin — visited Prudhoe Bay as part of a multiday trip aimed at highlighting Trump’s push to expand oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in the state.
They also followed the announcement that Burgum’s agency plans to repeal Biden-era restrictions on future leasing and industrial development in portions of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska designated as special for their wildlife, subsistence or other values.
The petroleum reserve is west of Prudhoe Bay and Deadhorse, the industrial encampment near the starting point of the trans-Alaska pipeline system. The pipeline, which runs for 800 miles (nearly 1,300 kilometers), has been Alaska’s economic lifeline for nearly 50 years.
Government and industry representatives several Asian countries, including Japan, were expected to join a portion of the U.S. officials’ trip, as Trump has focused renewed attention on the gas project proposal, which in its current iteration would provide gas to Alaska residents and ship liquefied natural gas overseas. Matsuo Takehiko, vice minister for International Affairs at Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, was among those at Prudhoe Bay on Monday.
The Interior Department said it will accept public comment on the planned repeal.
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