Chevron and Alyeska conduct drill in Prince William Sound

A three day maintenance shutdown of Berth 4 and 5 at Alyeska’s Valdez Marine Terminal began early Tuesday morning to prepare ballast water piping for inspection later this year. The shutdown is not expected to impact North Slope production or tanker traffic.

On Monday, June 4th, Chevron and Alyeska Pipeline Service Company began a focused four-day drill and workshop on Geographic Response Strategies (GRS) for Prince William Sound. This drill will build on previous successes for GRS in Tatitlek and Port Valdez. This drill meets requirements for testing of the oil spill contingency plans for Prince William Sound. The drill will result in contributions to the PWS SubArea Plan. Activities include field deployments in the Chenega area as well as various Incident Command System activities in the SERVS Valdez Emergency Operations Center. The drill will involve the following:

• Deployment of more than 45,000 feet of boom,
• 6 Current Buster oil spill recovery systems,
• 26 fishing vessels,
• 2 landing crafts,
• 10 miscellaneous support vessels,
• The Nearshore Barge 500-2,
• ENDURANCE, an Emergency Response Vessel (ERV),
• The APSC helicopter, and
• 150 people
  

Escort Tug NANUQ heading to Dry Dock

The NANUQ, one of two 10,000 horsepower tractor tugs used to escort tankers through Prince William Sound, will travel to the Dakota Creek Shipyard in Anacortes, Washington for dry docking and maintenance on her Voith cyclodial-drive units.

Water/oil spill contained and cleaned at East Tank Farm

Approximately ten gallons of water mixed with crude oil tank bottom materials spilled into the containment dike area of Tank #12 at the East Tank Farm at the Valdez Marine Terminal May 28th. A vacuum truck and sorbent pads were used to clean up the spill.

The spill was caused when snow load crushed the lids of several roll offs containing the tank bottom material. The material was removed during the cleaning of Tank #12 last summer. The material contains recoverable oil and was being held for processing this summer. It will then be reinjected into the crude stream and loaded onto tankers.

Pipeline Reliability for May

May Reliability 100%.

2001 Reliability 99.84%.

May Throughput 30,744,000 BBLS.

May Daily Average 992,000 BBLS

2001 Throughput 153,923,000 BBLS

2001 Daily Average 1,019,000 MBPD

The pipeline reliability factor is the amount of time the pipeline is operating and available to transport North Slope Crude oil. There were NO prorations during May.

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