Alaska oil spill at pump (BP) possible worst in 33 yr. history

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http://www.adn.com/2010/05/27/1297106/alyeska-begins-cleanup-of-oil.html


Alyeska Pipeline Services Co. says it is on track to have the trans-Alaska oil pipeline up and running by noon today, a company spokeswoman said.

Cleanup of the oil spill was under way Thursday with about 140 barrels of the oil collected by 4:30 p.m., said the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.

Up to several thousand barrels of oil is estimated to have overflowed Tuesday morning from a holding tank into a bermed containment field after a valve opened. The incident was at the last pump station of the pipeline, Pump Station 9, near Delta Junction.

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The shutdown has severely curtailed North Slope oil deliveries. The pipeline carries about 650,000 barrels a day of crude oil, about 10 percent of U.S. production. Turning off the pipeline disrupts about $45 million a day of North Slope production and about $13 million a day in state revenue.

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If the total of the spill is several thousand barrels, it would be one of the worst in the 33-year history of the pipeline. The oil did not escape the pump station secondary containment area, the state said.

Alyeska and the pipeline are owned by an oil-company consortium led by BP.
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on and on it goes

[kirby]

1. Sounds like things worked well...

"The oil did not escape the pump station secondary containment area"

That is a good thing. The safety systems work and the backed containment area was used.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. That is what BP said. Who knows the truth about that oil?

Do you really trust them to be honest?