P.M. BRIEFING : Alaska Pipeline Alert Tightened
Persian Gulf tensions have triggered an increase in security along the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, America’s major oil artery, pipeline operators announced today.
Alaska accounts for one-fourth of domestic production, sending nearly 2 million barrels of crude daily from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields on the Arctic coast to the southern Alaska port of Valdez, where tankers take on the oil for delivery to U.S. refineries.
Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., which operates the pipeline and the Valdez marine terminal for seven oil company owners, said it has a full contingency plan for responding to threats against the pipeline and that the plan has been reviewed by state and federal military and law enforcement agencies.
Among the measures announced by Alyeska were increased ground and air surveillance, tightened personnel inspections at pipeline pump stations and at the Valdez terminal and increased restrictions on access to pipeline facilities.
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