Power Outage at Valdez Marine Terminal

A power outage occurred at the Valdez Marine Terminal at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, July 3. The Terminal operated on emergency and back up power which were able to provide adequate power for the Operations Control Center and emergency functions such as fire suppression. Full power was restored at approximately 2:05 p.m.

The outage lasted approximately four hours. Pipeline throughput was not affected during this incident. During the outage, oil flowed into storage tanks and tank vapors were released to the atmosphere. Notifications to the proper regulatory agencies have been made. Tanker loading was halted when the power went out. Tanker loading operations returned to normal at 5:40 p.m.

The cause of the outage is currently under investigation.

June and Year to Date Reliability Remain High

June Reliability	98.62%
1998 Reliability	99.76%
June Throughput	34,971,000 barrels
June Daily Average	1,165,681 barrels per day
1998 Throughput	222,971,000 barrels
1998 Daily Average	1,232,000 barrels per day