Joined: Sep 16, 2004 Posts: 3688 Location: Southwest WI
Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: Re: Refinery Outages and Pipeline Problems 2007 -08
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Oil production at Prudhoe Bay, the nation's most prolific oil field, halted on Friday when a vehicle clearing snowdrifts damaged the power supply to processing centers.
Prudhoe Bay had been sending about 380,000 barrels of crude oil each day down the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, said Steve Rinehart, spokesman for field operator BP. Rinehart said production on Friday would be "way down" and would ramp back up over the next several days. It's unclear how much oil production was disrupted, the state said.
BP's Northstar field also went offline as a result of the power outage. Northstar produces about 79,000 barrels of crude daily from a man-made island in the Beaufort Sea. All told, North Slope oil fields produce about 730,000 barrels each day.
With a blizzard hampering visibility, the operator of a frontloader struck a compressed air line at the central power station, Rinehart said. The line controls the power station's fuel system. Seven plants shut down as a result.
All of the plants, which process the production from oil wells, had backup generators, said the state Department of Natural Resources. But the backup generator at Gathering Center 1, one of the big processing plants, overheated and had to be shut down, the department said.
Five of the seven main generators at Prudhoe's Central Power Station are back up, and power has been restored to the electrical grid, the resources department said.
BP hopes to have the rest operating by today, Rinehart said.
There were no injuries, and power supplies to workers' camps and other facilities in the remote Arctic region were not interrupted.
State officials said BP had not reported any spills. They are relying on the company for periodic updates, according to Allison Iversen, coordinator of the state Petroleum Systems Integrity Office.
http://www.adn.com/money/story/401871.html _________________ "Oil is going up because we use too much oil, and the capacity to replace reserves is dwindling"
-President Bush 11/07/07
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