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Volume 7 - Number 1 - January/February 2007
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Pipeline Restarted After
Leak on Bypass Piping Stopped The
source of a leak at Remote Gate Valve (RGV) 32 has been
identified as a loose fitting on a valve on a secondary
piece of piping that bypasses RGV 32.
A baseline maintenance coordinator was conducting routine
inspections just south of Atigun Pass and discovered the
leak at approximately 8:20 a.m., Tuesday, January 9, 2007.
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In the Field
Final Phase of SIPPS Complete
During the month of January, Alyeska
scheduled a mini-shutdown of the pipeline to complete the
final phase of transition to Alyeska’s new Safety Integrity
Pressure Protection System (SIPPS). These transitions are
significant steps for completion of the Strategic
Reconfiguration (SR) project which will upgrade and
standardize operating equipment at the reconfigured pump
stations in an effort to improve operating efficiency.
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President's Message
Kevin Hostler, President and CEO
Planning for Success in 2006
We talk a lot about safety at Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company. You have read my comments about our performance
many times on these pages and our employees discuss it
openly at every meeting we hold in the company. To
understand why we place such importance on safety, look no
further than our record in 2006. By our standards, we did
not have a good year.
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Face to Face
Moria Ureda
Instrument Technician
Sometimes life zigs when you’re expecting a
zag. But if you’re paying attention and open to the
possibilities, you may end up in the place you’d always been
destined to land. Just ask Moria Ureda, an Instrument
Technician and 16-year TAPS veteran.
Born and raised in Ketchikan, Moria was living and working
in Los Angeles, California, at the time of the oil spill in
1989. When she fortuitously got the chance to work on the
clean up crew, she headed to Valdez and never looked back.
After that stint, TAPS hired her as an administrative
assistant, a position she held for eight years before being
offered an internship in operations that would lead to more
room for advancement. It was the professional springboard
she’d been looking for. Someone in Human Resources was
really doing their job that day.
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Integrity Management on TAPS
Valves
The
Trans Alaska Pipeline System includes a number of valves
that can isolate sections of the pipeline in the event of a
leak. The 800 mile-long pipeline has 178 valves that control
oil flow through the 48-inch mainline pipe. Most of these
valves are environmental safeguards that ensure safe
operation and limit the potential size of spills, especially
at stream crossings and other environmentally sensitive
areas.
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