Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline Expected Shut for Bypass
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Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. plans to shut the Trans Alaska pipeline today to install a bypass around a leak on the conduit that carries 11 percent of U.S. crude oil production.
“We’ve had some weather delays with aircraft getting equipment up there, but it will be tonight,” if conditions are safe to proceed, Michelle Egan, a company spokeswoman, said in a telephone interview. The pipe is scheduled to be down for 36 hours, she said.