Kuparuk spill cleanup done; cause updated - June 24, 2012

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

Vol. 17, No. 26

Week of June 24, 2012

Kuparuk spill cleanup done; cause updated

Cleanup actions are complete on a produced water spill in the ConocoPhillips-operated Kuparuk River oil field, the state Department of Environmental Conservation says.

On April 21, an estimated 710 gallons of slightly oily produced water released from a line supplying artificial lift fluid to a production well at drill site 1J.

A final situation report from DEC issued June 1 provided an updated statement on the cause of the spill: “A flow meter failed due to erosion as produced water injection came back on-line following pigging operations.”

ConocoPhillips estimated a 3,860-square-foot section of gravel pad was affected, with no damage to tundra.

—Wesley Loy

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