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Vol. 14, No. 29 Week of July 19, 2009
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry

TAPS transitioning to low flow future

Strategic reconfiguration of the trans-Alaska pipeline moves ahead, while engineers assess the challenges of declining flow rates

Alan Bailey

Petroleum News

At the end of May, the switchover to new electric pumps at pump station 4 of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline marked the latest major step in the upgrade of the pipeline system to accommodate declining rates of oil production from Alaska’s North Slope. In fact, the decline of flow rates from 2.1 millio....

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