BP deals with 2nd Alaskan pipeline spill in a week - ACT OF MAN OR GOD?

How can there be TWO oil spills in a week at a facility which claims to preach safety and has specially trained employees? I think the whole oil industry needs to be reviewed by an expert third party and see if they can help identify areas for improvement - the science of oil is known - undoubtedly its not being applied very well - or just maybe MANAGEMENT needs a CHANGE?  You decide.

Here is a picture taken about December 8, 2009 showing the use of best-in-field cleanup techniques - scoop and dump to transfer the mess... what about that recent oil industry report claiming new ways to clean up an arctic oil spill? Guess the word has not reached way up north yet...

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Reuters
BP deals with 2nd Alaskan pipeline spill in a week
12.04.09, 11:04 AM ET

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec 4 (Reuters) - British oil giant BP has begun cleaning up fluid that spilled from a leaking flow line at its Prudhoe Bay operations in Alaska, state environmental officials said late Thursday.
The leak in the 34-inch diameter flow line, which was discovered Wednesday, spilled about 7,140 gallons of a watery mixture known as produced water into a manifold building and an outdoor gravel area, Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation said in a situation report late Thursday.
The spill was the second pipeline incident to affect BP's Alaska operations in less than a week, after the company found crude, gas and produced water leaking from another of its Alaskan pipelines on Sunday.
It was not immediately clear whether any of Prudhoe Bay's oil production, which is around 400,000 barrels a day, was affected by Wednesday's spill.
The earlier spill, from a pipeline serving BP's Lisburne field, briefly cut Prudhoe Bay production slightly earlier in the week, but output was quickly restored.
BP officials did not return calls seeking comment early Friday. The company is on probation after a major Alaskan pipeline spill in 2006.
The cause of both Alaskan pipeline spills this week remained unknown and under investigation, DEC said.
BP, which had a crew of more than 100 workers working to clean an oil and water in the Lisburne spill, also had begun a cleanup of the second spill, vacuuming up some of the produced water with a truck, a situation report said late Thursday.
As with the Lisburne spill, state and federal regulators will oversee the cleanup of the second spill, including officials from DEC and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, DEC said.
Over the next several days the frozen produced water on a Prudhoe Bay gravel pad will be removed with jackhammers or sucked up by a vacuum truck after the area is flushed, DEC said. Crews also have been cleaning oily residue off surfaces within the manifold building.
Produced water is not crude, but the often salty and oil-laced fluid can be harmful, especially if it penetrates into Alaska's fragile tundra surface.
The Wednesday spill appeared to be confined to a manifold area and around 3,000 square feet of outdoor gravel pad, and did not affect the tundra, DEC said.
BP shares traded up 0.7 percent Friday on the London Stock Exchange. (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Anchorage and Joshua Schneyer in New York; Editing by Walter Bagley)
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