[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Trans Alaska pipeline shut down for repair work
January 15, 2011
Reuters

ANCHORAGE - The Trans Alaska Pipeline System shut early on Saturday so crews could complete repairs that will allow restoration of normal oil shipments.

The operator of the 1,280-kilometre line, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., said the shutdown, from 12:07 a.m., was expected to last 36 hours, time for crews to install a 48-metre bypass line around a site where a leak was discovered a week ago.

... At the site of the oil leak, crews have recovered about 257 barrels, or 10,800 gallons of crude oil, Alyeska and regulators reported. Crews are able to vacuum up about 2 gallons per minute. The oil has leaked onto a basement floor in a pump building but has not been discovered outside the building, officials said.

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]BP fixes ESPO crude for USWC on Alaska snag: sources
By Joshua Schneyer - Reuters
Sat Jan 15, 2011 10:28am EST

... Meanwhile, crude in storage in Alaska's Valdez terminal had dwindled to below 20 percent of tank capacity as of early Friday, an oil industry source in Alaska estimated.

[Hawkcreek]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Trans Alaska pipeline shut down for repair work
... At the site of the oil leak, crews have recovered about 257 barrels, or 10,800 gallons of crude oil, Alyeska and regulators reported. Crews are able to vacuum up about 2 gallons per minute. The oil has leaked onto a basement floor in a pump building but has not been discovered outside the building, officials said.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', ' ')Its too bad the democrats won't let Alaska develop ANWR.....

[bratticus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', '9')% or 15% ?

WSJ: 9%
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Alaska Pipeline Closes Drop in Production by BP, Others Threatens to Push Oil Toward $100 a Barrel ... Total production on the North Slope is around 630,000 barrels a day—about 9% of total domestic U.S. output.

[bratticus]

[Hawkcreek]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', ' ')Its too bad the democrats won't let Alaska develop ANWR.....

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 't')he democrats won't let Alaska develop ANWR

[Hawkcreek]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 't')he democrats won't let Alaska develop ANWR

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 't')he democrats won't let Alaska develop ANWR

[Hawkcreek]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 't')he democrats won't let Alaska develop ANWR

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', ' ')the democrats, for 30+ years, have blocked every effort to open ANWR.

[bratticus]

The promise of limiting the second complete shutdown to only 36 hours never came true.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Alaska pipeline set for late Sunday or Monday open

... "The tentative timeline for the pipeline to restart is late tonight or early tomorrow," said Stefani Bell, a spokeswoman for Alyeska Pipeline Service Co on Sunday. "This time is tentative and may change."

... Alyeska had hoped this second shutdown would last for only 36 hours, but the work was taking longer due to bad weather and "because this is such a complex project," Bell said.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bratticus', ' ')the work was taking longer due to bad weather..

[TheDude]

Here's a 1987 article about a Georgia Dem Rep who actually spent time hiking about in ANWR, was a member of the committee that would decide on Reagan's Interior Department proposal to drill the thing up, and was a fence sitter after his direct experience with the Refuge, none of which prevented those tree hugging Democrat fags from keeping us dependent on the Saudi petro teat, moo ha ha ha.

Anybody ever proposed drilling extended reach wells from platforms in the KIC area? Or outside of ANWR itself, for that matter. Looks to me like you could do a fair bit of poking around the edges, and I assume caribou have no access to owning mineral rights in Alaska.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', '
')Anybody ever proposed drilling extended reach wells from platforms in the KIC area? Or outside of ANWR itself, for that matter. Looks to me like you could do a fair bit of poking around the edges, and I assume caribou have no access to owning mineral rights in Alaska.

[TheDude]

Your local Fish and Wildlife begs to differ: Arctic Refuge: Oil and Gas Issues

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')lthough technological advances in oil and gas exploration and development have reduced some of the harmful environmental effects associated with those activities, oil and gas development remains an intrusive industrial process.

[bratticus]

Obviously all the decent reporters are off today leaving only ones that write like this:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Alyeska Completes Repair of Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline
January 17, 2011, 10:56 AM EST
By Rachel Graham and Yee Kai Pin

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. said it has completed repairs on its Trans Alaska Pipeline, which carries 11 percent of U.S. crude production.

[Hawkcreek]

Thought this was interesting.

"June 29, 2011 --- Vol. 17, No. 58 June 2011
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Alyeska issues TAPS low flow study report
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., operator of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, has issued a report from a study assessing the potential impact of low oil throughput volumes on pipeline operations. As oil throughput in the pipeline declines, as a consequence of declining production from North Slope oil fields, the temperature of the fluids in the pipeline will become progressively lower, causing several problems including the formation of ice inside the line and the deposition of wax on the pipeline walls.

The low flow study has concluded that problems of this type are likely to occur at throughputs of between 600,000 and 300,000 barrels per day. Water will likely separate from the oil at throughputs of 500,000 barrels per day or less, with ice forming, potentially damaging pumps and other equipment at throughputs below 550,000 barrels per day. Throughputs below 350,000 barrels per day could cause soil around buried sections of the line to freeze, causing frost heaves.

Current throughput is around 600,000 barrels per day.

“The study findings make it clear that the technical challenges compound and increase as throughput declines,” said Alyeska President Tom Barrett. “The simplest, most direct and cost effective path to dealing with these challenges is to stop the decline by adding more oil.”

Alaska North Slope crude oil production averaged 604,508 barrels per day in May, down 4.66 percent from an April average of 634,028 bpd. And on more than a dozen days during the month, beginning May 13 and including May 31, production dropped below the 600,000-bpd mark. "

See full story in July 3 issue of Petroleum News, available online at 11 a.m., Friday, July 1 at http://www.PetroleumNews.com

It may not be too long before the 600,000 barrels a day from the slope may be a lot more expensive to pump.
I worked on the Alyeska Pipeline Strategic Reconfiguration project which lowered the throughput capability of the line by replacing turbine driven pumps with variable speed pumps. At the time no one talked about other possible problems related to a lower flow.
Should be interesting.