New pumps start up at Pump Station 3 12/23/2007
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. is in the process of switching over a second pipeline pump station to new technology. Pump Station 3, on the north side of the Brooks Range, is the second of four stations...

Alaska's PSIO completes staff hiring 11/18/2007
The Petroleum System Integrity Office has completed its recruitment efforts, PSIO Coordinator Jonne Slemons told Petroleum News Nov. 14. Slemons said Dan Rice, PE, was hired in July as PSIO's lead te...

30 STRONG: VMT gets vapor control technology 10/14/2007
Air quality improves after Alyeska installs vapor control system at Valdez terminal
The biggest advance in technology at the Valdez Marine Terminal was installation of a vapor control system at the oil loading berths in 1998, according to Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. officials. Befo...

30 STRONG: Corrosion battle began on Day 1 10/14/2007
Ongoing campaign slows aging in trans-Alaska oil pipeline, yields technology dividends
In the beginning, it was an occasional skirmish. Thirty years later, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. is embroiled in a full-scale war on corrosion and destructive forces attacking the trans-Alaska oil pi...

30 STRONG: Prevention fuels best practices hunt 10/14/2007
SERVS, terminal benefit from Alyeska's commitment to doing it right, best technology
Unquestionably, the watershed event in the evolution of oil spill prevention and response technologies used by Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. was the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In a little over 11 1/2 year...

30 STRONG: Pipeline pigs dig the dirty work 10/14/2007
Instruments used by Alyeska to monitor, maintain 30-year-old infrastructure have improved
Perhaps the most talked about and least understood technologies in the transportation sector of the oil industry are in-line inspection devices known as "pigs." These oinkers, like their namesakes, ar...

30 STRONG: A tale of two leaks 10/14/2007
Emergency response quicker, more effective in 23 years between oil spills at Alyeska
In 30 years, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. has only had to respond to oil spill emergencies caused by acts of sabotage against the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. The first incident occurred in the Steele C...

30 STRONG: Better mousetraps for inland spills 10/14/2007
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. scored big with recent advances in emergency preparedness
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., operator of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, has assembled a diverse collection of tools to aid in its ongoing efforts to improve its emergency response capabilities. Empl...

30 STRONG: Seeking systems for all seasons 10/14/2007
After 30 years of upgrades, Alyeska brings telecommunications, computer systems to peak
Advances in telecommunications and information technology have brought numerous improvements to the computer system that controls the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and the network that facilitates and rei...

30 STRONG: With DRA pipeline less of a drag 10/14/2007
Chemical additive enables Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. to achieve huge cost savings
Over three decades, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. has operated the trans-Alaska oil pipeline with the assistance of numerous technologies. None, perhaps, is better known than a clever innovation cooked...

30 STRONG: TAPS: Young after 30 years 10/14/2007
Over past 10 years Alyeska achieved 99.5% pipeline mechanical reliability rate
It is an unrivaled engineering marvel compared by some with the Great Wall of China. It has safely and reliably delivered incomparable wealth in petroleum riches to the American people over three deca...

30 STRONG: Mega-line drives industry technology 10/14/2007
30-year old trans-Alaska pipeline adopts best new technology for safe, reliable operation
In the 30 years since operators moved the first barrel of Prudhoe Bay oil down the trans-Alaska pipeline in 1977, improvements in technology have illuminated the path forward on Alaska's North Slope. ...

Alyeska works issues 09/02/2007
Strategic reconfiguration project now sequential; part of normal operations
Strategic reconfiguration, designed to bring the trans-Alaska oil pipeline into the digital age and also in line with current throughput levels of Alaska North Slope crude oil, has itself been reconfi...