diff --git a/vast_pipeline/pipeline/utils.py b/vast_pipeline/pipeline/utils.py
index e96eb129..c28eb3f8 100644
--- a/vast_pipeline/pipeline/utils.py
+++ b/vast_pipeline/pipeline/utils.py
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 import shutil
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
-import pyarrow as pa
 import astropy.units as u
 import dask
 import dask.dataframe as dd