BP: Oil Spill Shuts In 100,000 B/D Alaskan Crude Output

Oil and gas firm BP (BP) has shut in 100,000 barrels a day of crude production in Alaska, after an oil spill at a pipeline, the company said Thursday.

The spill took place earlier Thursday at a BP-operated transit line on Alaska’s North Slope, between Gathering Center 2 and Pump Station 1 in Prudhoe Bay’s western operating unit. Output at the 100,000 b/d gathering facility and the wells that feed into it were shut in because of the leak, BP spokesperson Daren Beaudo told Dow Jones Newswires.
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