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Bp - Green or Mean? Contd...
The spillage was due to a corroded transit pipeline. Investigations found that BP had not been maintaining the pipeline properly. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration12 ordered BP to review the leak detection system on the affected line as well as two other crude transit pipelines in Prudhoe. Critics were incensed by the fact that BP had last used a pipeline inspection gauge13 (pig) on the pipeline in 1998.14 This led to a criminal investigation by the US Attorney's Office (in Anchorage, Alaska) into the leaks.
12] The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
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