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This section contains
news about Alyeska. Click on the links
below to get informed about these operational stories.
- September 2008
- September 2008
- TAPS crews
tackle Chandalar Lake drill
Late this summer, on the morning of
August 26, Oil Spill Response Crews from Pump Station 4 and Pump Station
5 came together for a drill of a simulated spill on the Chandalar Shelf,
a region just south of Atigun Pass in the Brooks Range.
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Phelan Creek
site of TAPS oil spill drill
Alyeska Pipeline holds more than 70 spill exercises a year to test and
practice its oil spill contingency plan to ensure that well-trained
personnel and appropriate equipment are ready to respond to emergencies
along the entire length of the 800-mile-long pipeline. In early
September, spill responders tested their response capabilities at a
location near Phelan Creek. Hear Alyeska's Greg Campbell explain the
logistics of this drill. "We take a lot of pride in being able to
protect TAPS and the environment," Campbell said.
- August 2008
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Cathodic protection project wraps up near Valdez
Alyeska civil project teams this summer have worked along some of
the pipeline’s steepest terrain, upgrading the cathodic protection
system that combats external corrosion on the 48-inch mainline pipe.
The project covers some 20 miles of the Right of Way near Valdez.
Most recently, the group is tackling the third, final and most
difficult segment of the project, in Keystone Canyon.
- Pipeline
shutdown for routine maintenance
Work crews completed two major projects during a scheduled
maintenance shutdown on August 16-17 on opposite sides of the Trans
Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS). The event lasted approximately 35
hours with over 350 TAPS employees working at various locations
completing nearly 40 additional work tasks.
- May 2008
- Loading tankers at the Valdez Marine
Terminal
Since
the pipeline first started in 1977, over
19,000 tankers have been loaded from the
Valdez Marine Terminal. In total, more than
15 billion barrels of oil have passed
through the pipeline. Learn more about the
process of safely loading the massive
tankers that dock at the Valdez Marine
Terminal in
this video featuring Tammy Holmes, Berth
Operator.
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- April 2008
- TAPS teams bring health &
safety lessons to remote communities
The name of this philanthropic quest is a mouthful. The event itself is
ambitious. But the goal of the “Prince William Sound Traveling Health
and Safety Fair & Events" is simple: TAPS employees and health care
volunteers visit some of the region's most remote communities to deliver
health and safety messages and lessons to the people who live there.
- February 2008
- Reconfigured pumps at PS 9 reach
one-year milestone
It has
been over a year since Alyeska started moving oil at Pump Station 9 with
the new equipment installed as part of Strategic Reconfiguration (SR).
The SR project involves installing electrically driven crude oil pumps
at four critical pump stations (1, 3, 4 and 9) combined with increased
automation and upgraded control systems
- September 2007
- Strategic Reconfiguration work unfolding at Pump Station 3
Alyeska crews recently passed another Strategic Reconfiguration
Project milestone, with this summer’s startup of the 2.25 megawatt
Diesel Generator at Pump Station 3 (PS 3). The first fire of that
generator at 9:15 a.m. on July 30 started the clock ticking, giving
crews 270 days to meet provisions for the pump station’s new air permit
and separate the station from the existing legacy equipment
- February 2007
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