Workers relieve pressure on leaking Alaska oil well

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 8:35 pm, Sunday, April 16, 2017

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal and state workers have reduced the amount of pressure in an oil well that is misting natural gas on Alaska's frozen North Slope, officials said Sunday.

Workers from the Alaska Department of Conservation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Saturday night were able to connect hoses to valves that allow pressure in the well to be reduced, according to a statement from the state conservation department.

 
The statement says pressure in the well was monitored all night and excess pressure was released from the well.

The Environmental Protection Agency says a crack in the BP wellhead near Deadhorse sent up mist of crude oil Friday before it froze over and an initial leak stopped.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Workers-relieve-pressure-on-leaking-Alaska-oil-11077053.php

[joshdawg]

1. Two factual statements:

Concrete will crack
Pipelines will leak

[Demonaut]

2. now it's a controlled leak with a greater release of gas

[Sunlei]

3. All that gas escaping from the thawing permafrost/oil wells and its not even collected.

BP got caught with another crappy cracked well head.