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BP shutting down large Alaska oil field - Yahoo! News
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. began shutting down the Prudhoe Bay oil field Sunday after discovering unexpectedly severe corrosion and a small spill from a transit pipeline.
Prudhoe Bay represents about half of Alaska’s oil production and about 8 percent of U.S. production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Company officials said it would take days to shut down the oil field. Once completed, it’s expected to reduce oil field production by 400,000 barrels a day.
“We regret that it is necessary to take this action and we apologize to the nation and the State of Alaska for the adverse impacts it will cause,” BP America Chairman and President Bob Malone said in a prepared statement.
Officials learned Friday that data from an internal sensing device found 16 anomalies in 12 locations in an oil transit line on the eastern side of the field. Follow-up inspections found “corrosion-related wall thinning appeared to exceed BP criteria for continued operation,” the company said in a release.
That’s when workers also found a small spill, estimated to be about 4 to 5 barrels.
BP says the spill has been contained and clean up efforts are under way. State and federal officials have been informed of the decision.
How much higher will this cause the price of gas to go up, my god.
I am having a difficult time filling my tank as it is. Last week I went thru $200 in gas, now my customers have to pay more as I am paying more for deliveries and getting back and forth. This is effecting all of us.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThank god for our republican/conservative leadership!!! They will save the day….man i feel sorry for anyone running on those two party lines…
How can our government allow one company to reek havoc on the economy like this? This one company will do more to increase oil prices than anything terrorists have done…perhaps we should declare war on poor management in the oil industry.
Sorry to burst your happy balloon but it has been the Democrats and the environmentalists that have stopped the building of any new refineries in the US for 20+ years.
We are stuck with oil from overseas because we cannot drill anywhere in the continental United States.
Who has been in control of the House since 1994 and Both legislative branches AND the executive branch of government since 2000??
Its convenient to blame the Democrats, but the fact of the matter is that they havent been in power, Republicans have! Republicans control the House, Senate, and Presidency. I fail to see how this can be blamed on “the Democrats and environmentalists.” If they wanted to, the Republicans could authorize new oil exploration tommorow, and your telling me Bush would veto it? I doubt it! You have to blame the party in power for inaction on an legislation they could act on if they chose to.
Did I blame the Democrats for this? NO..
I do blame them and the spineless RINO’s for not doing something about building refineries and drilling. They all are to blame for putting us into this situation. All the politicians are useless and no longer represent us.
It took 20 years to build a power generating station in California and that was for thermal warming power, the cleanest form for producing power and the plant is still not under construction.
Even talk about drilling brings the wacko environmentalists out of the wood work and of course who sucks up to them? Not me…. We need to build, drill and refine oil it’s a simple fact of life. We also need to research alternative energy like electric, hydrogen what ever works to get us away from oil and the dependedce on it.
Every state that they want to drill in and even off shore gets turned down, some one has got to say OK.
Its a delicate balance…nobody wants the entire country to turn into Niagara Falls, but we also dont want to be paying $77 dollars per barrell!! When i heard that yesterday i felt my wallet getting lighter. I think if there were a Manhattan Project type initiative to find alternative sources of oil, we could get off the middle east addiction. According to the Oil industry’s own research, we are reaching peak oil…its time to find alternatives. If elected would you help fund alternatives? (like the ethenol plant proposed for the city)
Absolutely!
When I lived in Arizona they came out with light weight aluminum batteries that would be perfect for electric cars. I have no idea what ever happened to that, look at the guy driving his car with waste vegetable oil..
We have to do something.
We should line the south shore of Lake Ontario with refineries. Hurricane proof. Earthquake proof. Tankers running up and down the St Lawrence. All highly monitored. NY also needs to rethink its ban on diesel cars. Better overall mileage than hybrids. Conciderably cleaner now than they were 25 yrs ago and the Veg Oil option is there.
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