Faulty valve suspected in refinery leak - March 11, 2012

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industryMarch 2012

Vol. 17, No. 11

Week of March 11, 2012

Faulty valve suspected in refinery leak

A faulty valve is being suspected for being the cause of a leak at a North Pole refinery.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/z02d0h ) says the leak of about 1,800 gallons of crude oil was discovered Feb. 26 during a routine inspection at the Flint Hills Resources refinery. The oil was deposited in a containment field surrounding an already empty oil tank.

Flint Hills spokesman Jeff Cook says the oil likely came from a piping system used primarily to collect waste fluids that connects the oil tanks and surrounding containment fields. The piping system sometimes is used to move crude oil.

A cleanup was initiated and no groundwater was contaminated. Cook says contaminated soil will be removed once the weather gets warmer.

—Associated Press

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