Trans Alaska pipeline shut down for repair work
January 15, 2011
Reuters
ANCHORAGE - The Trans Alaska Pipeline System shut early on Saturday so crews could complete repairs that will allow restoration of normal oil shipments.
The operator of the 1,280-kilometre line, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., said the shutdown, from 12:07 a.m., was expected to last 36 hours, time for crews to install a 48-metre bypass line around a site where a leak was discovered a week ago.
... At the site of the oil leak, crews have recovered about 257 barrels, or 10,800 gallons of crude oil, Alyeska and regulators reported. Crews are able to vacuum up about 2 gallons per minute. The oil has leaked onto a basement floor in a pump building but has not been discovered outside the building, officials said.
Of course none of the oil got into the soil since it never does until someone can prove it did and who's going to do that?