Alyeska looking at modular pump station facilities

Electrification of stations, replacement of 42 turbines with fewer than 10 under consideration by trans-Alaska oil pipeline operator

Kristen Nelson

Petroleum News Editor-in-Chief

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. has completed the conceptual engineering phase of strategic reconfiguration for the pipeline and is working on preliminary engineering, expected to be completed this year, which will give the company the cost and benefit figures needed for a go-no go decision by the pipe....

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New pumps with electric motors

Control system upgrade

Goal: minimize cost of transportation

Larger scale change