Alyeska plans pipeline bullet-hole drillExercise will involve field testing hydraulic clamp designed to quickly seal high-pressure oil leak; 2001 shooting caused big spill Wesley Loy For Petroleum News
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. is planning a field exercise this year to test a hydraulically powered clamp designed to stop oil squirting out of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline through a bullet hole.
The drill is part of a series of oil spill response exercises the Anchorage-based operator of the 800-m....
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