Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp., Chicago, has...

Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp., Chicago, has combined pipeline operations under one executive who will be based in Los Angeles. The pipeline systems of Santa Fe Industries Inc. and Southern Pacific Co. had been operated separately since the companies’ 1983 merger.

Raymond J. Hunt, 62, has been named president of the combined operations, which comprise 5,900 miles of pipeline in 13 states. He had been president of Tulsa, Okla.-based Santa Fe Pipeline Co. since 1969. Since the Santa Fe-Southern Pacific merger, he has also served as executive vice president of Southern Pacific Pipelines Co., Los Angeles, under President William T. Eskew. In his new job, Hunt will assume the duties of Eskew, who is retiring.

The new pipeline company has not been officially named, a corporate spokesman said. Pending board approval, it will probably follow other SFSP corporate combinations in using the name Santa Fe Pacific, he said.

Operations of the new unit include the 2,800-mile Southern Pacific Pipelines; Chaparral Pipeline, an 800-mile liquid natural gas system in Texas; Gulf Central Pipeline, a 1,915-mile anhydrous-ammonia fertilizer system stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest, and Black Mesa Pipeline, 1,275-mile coal slurry line between Arizona and Nevada. Operating income from pipeline operations totaled $85 million in 1984, SFSP said.