TAPS to shut down for maintenance

The Joint Pipeline Office said June 15 that the trans-Alaska oil pipeline will be shutdown for annual maintenance twice this summer, the first time on June 19 and 20.

“A variety of valve maintenance issues at pump station 7 and 12 will be performed under the strategic reconfiguration project and new pig launcher valves at PS 4 are the focus of this shut down,” the joint federal and state agency said in its weekly newsletter. JPO will position staff to “conduct oversight” at pump stations 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, the Valdez marine terminal, and at its Fairbanks and Anchorage offices.

Work is expected to take about 36 hours to complete.

A second planned maintenance shut down is scheduled for July 23 and 24, JPO said.

—Petroleum News

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