pipeline inspections from something in the neighborhood of 40,000 a year to about 90,000 this year. reporter: still, as recently as 2008, kovac wrote this e-mail to a bp manager, warning we are expecting a major failure again in alaska. next time, bp may not be so lucky. these 2008 picks from kovac show the risk he says bp employees face every day. the gas injection lines snapped due to corrosion. in response, bp s rinehart says, quote, it regrettably missed its inspection because it was covered by snow and never made it on the to-do list. a bp employee who didn t want to be identified told me the oil giant had serious lapses in safety compliance in terms of corrosion. this employee was fired in 199 after refusing his supervisor s request to manipulate data and
in 2006, it was an aging, corroded pipeline that burst. 200,000 barrels of oil spilled into alaska s bay. bp plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of violating the clean water act. a federal judge put bp on probation for three years and fined it $20 million. keeping them honest, we talked with steve rinehart, a spokesman for bp alaska, who told us their budget does not limit their safety program. he insists corrosion efforts have improved in the past years. certainly since 2006, every element of our anti-corrosion program has advanced. we have taken the number of pipeline inspections from something in the neighborhood of 40,000 a year to about 90,000 this year. reporter: still, as recently as 2008, kovac wrote this e-mail to a bp manager, warning we are expecting a major failure again in alaska.
pipeline inspections from something in the neighborhood of 40,000 a year to about 90,000 this year. reporter: still as recently as 2008, kovac wrote this e-mail to a bp manager warning, we are expecting a major failure in alaska and next time bp may not be so lucky. these 2008 pictures from kovac show the risk that bp employees face everyday and the gas injection line snapped due to corrosion, and in response, bp s reinhardt says that the pipe missed the projection because it was covered in snow and never made it on to the to-do list. the worker said they had serious lapses due to corrosion, and this employee says he was fired in 2007 after refusing to manipulate data and paint a