Corroded Pipe Stops BP Oil Flow From Prudoe Bay"

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (ENS) — --> BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. has begun an "orderly and phased shutdown" of the Prudhoe Bay oil field following the discovery of unexpectedly censorious corrosion and a small spill from a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line.

Shutting down the field will take days to out and out BP executives said Monday. above time, these actions will restore Alaska North Slope oil production through an estimated 400,000 barrels for day.

BP plans to replace 16 miles of corroded carburet of iron pipeline in the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Company officials proffered no estimate of how lengthy the field would be offline.

The depressed pressure, large diameter oil transit lines fe uncooked oil from Prudhoe Bay into the trans-Alaska pipeline, which carries all North direction downward oil 800 miles south to the tanker dock at Valdez, Alaska.

Oil time to comes already near record highs hit in July discharge higher on the announcement, and