Anchorage, AK – Alyeska Pipeline Service Company successfully restarted the Trans Alaska Pipeline System at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, August 17, after completing a series of line-wide maintenance tasks and projects relating to Strategic Reconfiguration at two of the northern pump stations. During the shutdown, work at Pump Stations 1 and 3 centered around the placement of infrastructure that will eventually connect the pipeline to new, electrically driven pump modules.

Work crews also successfully replaced two pig trap valves and performed maintenance and tests on selected Remote Gate Valves.

Alyeska conducts line-wide shutdowns nearly every year to allow crews to work on projects in various locations simultaneously along the pipeline.

The shutdown coincided with the oil producers’ routine maintenance on equipment and facilities on the North Slope. The shutdown began at 6:00 a.m. Monday, August 16.

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