...long and narrow community," Larson explained. "That long and narrow community has an unbelievably higher number of pump stations, for example, to get the wastewater to the treatment facility, whereas if our community grew more in a circular...
...At peak flow in 1988, oil entering the pipeline at Pump Station 1 on the North Slope traveled the 800 miles to Valdez...techniques to avoid further cooling. Oil enters the line at Pump Station 1 at about 110 degrees but drops to below 60 degrees...
...what would be needed on the North Slope to remove more water.Alyeska is taking steps to add heat to the pipeline. Pump Station 5 is being engineered to deliver additional heated oil to the line within two years.Adding heat, however, carries...
...or gelling can occur, she said.Alyeska first tried this method last year during a shutdown forced by a leak near a pump station. Alyeska began using it again this winter and plans to continue into spring, she said. She had no estimate on how...
...Mount Juneau, said Juneau Empire Reporter Klas Stolpe. He said the slide occurred at the Alaska Electric Light & Power Pump Station along the Flume Trail past Basin Road. City and Borough of Juneau Avalanche Forecaster Tom Mattice is currently on...
...While that was going on, Fish and Game heard from Alyeska workers that a calf had been found between two pipeline pump stations. The immediate response was "Yeah, we know, we're on it," Harms said. But it was the other abandoned calf...
...about 190,000 gallons of oil at a pump station near Delta Junction fits into part...keep additional workers at the pump station around the clock, inspecting for...backup power system at its operating pump stations to prevent this sort of accident...
...report also outlined some examples of Interior-based employees helping to reduce response time to incidents such as a pump station fire, a leak from a rifle shot, flooding damage, and a failed cleaning attempt that plugged the pipeline.
...oil over 800 miles from the North Slope to Valdez. Alyeska is rebuilding several remote pump stations that push crude oil down the pipeline. The pump stations are being converted from work camps into unmanned, automated stations. Of the jobs expected...
...was the severity of corrosion in the fields' transit lines, the pipes that move oil from gathering stations to the pump stations that will push it through the trans-Alaska pipeline. Oil is pulled from the ground by a well and moved to a flow...
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