Produced water discharge at Kuparuk - May 02, 2010

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryMay 2010

Vol. 15, No. 18

Week of May 02, 2010

Produced water discharge at Kuparuk

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said April 26 that ConocoPhillips Alaska discovered and reported a produced water spill from the Kuparuk 3R well 22 flowline the morning of April 25.

DEC said an undetermined amount of produced water was released from an injection flow line to a reserve pit at R pad, well 22, at the Kuparuk River field.

DEC said the injection line has been shut-in, depressurized and de-inventoried. Spill response technicians had determined the spill area and were using hand tools and a skid steer loader to remove contaminated snow from the spill area.

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