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Update on Trading Bay slop oil release
Kristen Nelson
Petroleum News
In a Dec. 17 situation report on the Dec. 15 slop oil release at Hilcorp Alaskas Trading Bay production facility, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservations Division of Spill Prevention and Response said Hilcorp and Cook Inlet Spill Prevention and Response Inc. personnel were on site Dec..
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The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 11th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US had decreased by 122 billion cubic feet to 3,726 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 284 billion cubic feet, or still 8.3% higher than the 3,442 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 11th of last year, and 243 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 3,483 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 11th of December in recent years..the 122 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was less than the average forecast from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts who had expected a 127 billion cubic foot withdrawal, but was higher than the average withdrawal of 105 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been pulled out of natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, and the
State officials are assisting the clean up of almost 8,000 gallons of oil that was spilled earlier this week at a production facility in Trading Bay, officials confirmed Thursday.
On Tuesday, shortly after noon, workers at the Hilcorp, Alaska-owned facility were transferring slop oil from one storage tank to another when they noticed the receiving tank was not filling properly. A closer inspection revealed that oil was leaking out from under the spill containment liner of one of the tanks. The cause of the leak was a broken underground transfer pipe that links the two tanks. In total, officials estimate 190 barrels or 7,980 gallons of slop oil were spilled in the leak.
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Hilcorp has Trading Bay slop oil release
Petroleum News
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation reported Dec. 16 that Hilcorp Alaska discovered a slop oil release at its Trading Bay Production Facility on Dec. 15.
The product spilled, slop oil, consists of 80% crude oil and 20% water.
Slop oil is defined as crude oil emulsified with water..
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Print article An oil spill at a Hilcorp Alaska facility on the west side of Cook Inlet was discovered Tuesday afternoon, a state environmental regulator said Wednesday. The state reported that 190 barrels leaked from containment layers. As of Wednesday afternoon, the spill was contained to the facility and had not reached Cook Inlet, according to an Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation report. The spill was discovered by an operator at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Trading Bay Production Facility, about 20 miles northwest of Kenai, and was reported two hours later, according to DEC. “It’s a large quantity of oil, however, the weather is working for us right now,” said Jade Gamble, a unit manager for DEC’s Prevention, Preparedness and Response Program. “The ground is frozen so it’s not able to seep through the ground as easily as it would in the summertime.”