BP gives $1 million for University Alaska Anchorage lab to study metals corrosion

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. announced Monday that it was donating $1 million to the University of Alaska Anchorage to help create a lab to study the effects of corrosion on pipe metals. The gift will pay for the entire BP Asset Integrity and Corrosion Lab, according to Matt Cullin, who will be the director of [...]

Judge: 2009 BP oil spill in Alaska did not violate probation

A federal judge ruled in Anchorage that BP was not negligent in its handling of a 2009 oil spill and therefore did not violate the terms of its probation. U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline found that the spill was not caused by corrosion or improper maintenance, as federal prosecutors in Alaska alleged. At issue [...]

Alyeska agrees to $600,000 penalty to settle federal cases

The operator of the trans-Alaska pipeline has reached a settlement with federal regulators to resolve four enforcement cases dating back to 2006. Under the deal, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. will pay a civil penalty of $600,000, which represents a considerable savings over the sum of penalties the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials [...]

Alyeska, federal regulators reach settlement on January oil leak

The operator of the trans-Alaska pipeline has reached a settlement with federal regulators, who raised major safety concerns following a January oil leak at Pump Station 1. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. signed the settlement, or “consent agreement,” with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. The deal resolves the “notice of [...]

Third North Slope oil spill in a week

Small oil spills on the North Slope are continuing to keep BP Alaska crews and state environmental officials busy this summer. The company has had to deal with three small spills in just the last week, events that appear to be related to maintenance and testing activities. BP Exploration Alaska spokesman Steve Rinehart said Monday [...]

BP Ducks Investor Suit for Prudhoe Bay Spill

(CN) – The 9th Circuit on Wednesday dismissed a securities-fraud complaint against BP Exploration related to the oil company’s 2007 conviction for negligently discharging oil into Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay. This decision from the federal appeals court in Seattle unanimously reverses a federal judge’s finding that BP’s contractual filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

BP to pay $25 million fine for 2006 Alaska oil spill

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today announced that BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. will pay $25 million in civil penalties and implement a system-wide pipeline integrity management program for spilling more than 5,000 barrels of [...]

Federal Regulators Find Alaska Pipeline Safety Flaws

Federal investigators recommended a raft of safety upgrades for the Trans Alaska Pipeline following a leak last month that shut down the pipeline system for more than five days. The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which has been investigating the pipeline leak, said in an enforcement document that while the exact cause of [...]