ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 18 (UPI) — An Alaskan environmental official said workers near the site of a BP pipeline rupture on Alaska’s North Slope felt the ground shake from the break.
Workers with BP last weekend were replacing valves on an 8-inch pipeline used for testing oil. The line failed at 949 pounds-per-square-inch during testing of a system meant to handle 2,000 psi, the Anchorage Daily News reports.
Tom DeRuyter, a coordinator for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, said the pipeline burst with such force that workers in a nearby building felt the underground percussion, the report added.
BP said as much as 100 barrels of fluid, mostly methanol, spilled onto a gravel pad and area pond, the DEC said. As much as 15 barrels of fluid were recovered by Sunday.
DeRuyter said cleanup operations were going well and authorities were investigating why the pipeline burst during the pressure test.
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