BP ALASKA
March 1st, 2002
BY PHILIP FINE
BP Exploration has outlined its plan for oil-leak prevention to Alaska state regulators after calls for improvements in its operations. The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission had ordered the company to explain how it would better monitor and maintain the more than 1,000 critical valves at the biggest and oldest oil field at the state's North Slope patch. Last, year, the commission found high failure rates on wellhead valves at six of the 24 production pads. In a letter dated March 1st, BP Alaska's operations integrity manager Chris J. ...
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