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• April 2008
  • TAPS teams bring health & safety lessons to remote communities
    The name of this philanthropic quest is a mouthful. The event itself is ambitious. But the goal of the “Prince William Sound Traveling Health and Safety Fair & Events" is simple: TAPS employees and health care volunteers visit some of the region's most remote communities to deliver health and safety messages and lessons to the people who live there.
     
• February 2008
  • Reconfigured pumps at PS 9 reach one-year milestone
    It has been over a year since Alyeska started moving oil at Pump Station 9 with the new equipment installed as part of Strategic Reconfiguration (SR). The SR project involves installing electrically driven crude oil pumps at four critical pump stations (1, 3, 4 and 9) combined with increased automation and upgraded control systems
     
• September 2007
  • Strategic Reconfiguration work unfolding at Pump Station 3
    Alyeska crews recently passed another Strategic Reconfiguration Project milestone, with this summer’s startup of the 2.25 megawatt Diesel Generator at Pump Station 3 (PS 3). The first fire of that generator at 9:15 a.m. on July 30 started the clock ticking, giving crews 270 days to meet provisions for the pump station’s new air permit and separate the station from the existing legacy equipment
     
• February 2007
  • Alyeska continues to evaluate maintenance "pigging" practices
    late December, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. sent a scraper pig down the 800-mile-long trans-Alaska pipeline to remove the wax that builds up on the inside walls of the pipe. During the course of transit, the pig encountered resistance that caused it to come apart as it is designed
  • Integrity digs help monitor and mitigate pipeline corrosion
    Alyeska has plenty of tools in the toolbox to help detect, prevent and repair corrosion on the trans-Alaska pipeline. Two key components of our program to monitor and manage the integrity of the pipeline are pigging and digging
  • 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