Friday, December 4, 2009
BP Deals With 2nd Alaskan Pipeline Spill In A Week
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec 4 (Reuters) - British oil giant BP ( BP - news - people ) has begun cleaning up a second pipeline leak at its Prudhoe Bay operations in Alaska this week, after fluid spilled from a flow line Wednesday.
The incident did not impact oil production in Prudhoe Bay, the largest U.S. oilfield complex, a BP spokesman said Friday.
The leak in the 34-inch (86-cm) diameter flow line, which was discovered Wednesday, spilled about 7,140 gallons f a watery mixture known as produced water into an operational building and an outdoor gravel area, Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation said in a situation report late Thursday.
The spill was the second pipeline incident to affect BP's Alaska operations in less than a week, after the company found crude, gas and produced water leaking from another of its Alaskan pipelines on Sunday.
Produced water is not crude, but the often salty and oil-laced fluid can be harmful, especially if it penetrates into Alaska's fragile tundra surface.
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