BP`S ALASKA OIL PIPELINE SHUT
Baku, May 26 (AZERTAC). The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down on Tuesday after a crude oil spill, drastically cutting supply out of Alaska`s oilfields.
The shutdown followed a series of mishaps that resulted from a scheduled fire-command system test at pump station 9, about 160km south of Fairbanks, said Alyeska Pipeline Service Co, the operator of the 1,287 km oil line said.
The power outage triggered opening of relief valves, causing an unspecified volume of crude oil to overflow a storage tank into a secondary containment. There were no injuries, but the work site was evacuated. North Slope oil producers have been instructed to cut their flow to 16 per cent of their normal rates, Alyeska said.
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