Prudhoe Bay oil spill now as much as 100 gallons

BP now estimates as much as 100 gallons of crude oil may have spilled in an area around a well house where a pipe broke in the Prudhoe Bay oil field, Alaska officials said Tuesday. BP's initial estimate was 3 gallons of oil.

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Spill occurs at Prudhoe Bay oil field

A new spill has occurred in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field, the Department of Environmental Conservation said Tuesday.

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BP Prudhoe Bay enters $29.5M settlement deal

BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust said Tuesday it entered into a $29.5 million settlement agreement with BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., a unit of British oil company BP PLC.

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State, feds file civil suits over BP oil spills

Separate state and federal civil lawsuits were filed Tuesday against BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. over two spills at the nation's largest oil field in 2006.

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Alaska Pursuing Civil Penalties From BP

BP PLC recently agreed to pay millions in federal criminal fines over a 2006 oil spill in the nation's largest oil field, but state officials said Wednesday they are building a case to pursue their own damages related to two spills at Prudhoe Bay last year.

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Oil Dips Below $60; Gas Now at $2.38

Crude-oil futures briefly dipped below $60 a barrel on Monday, but later jumped by more than $1 in a sign that the market free-fall may be nearing an end.

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BP to Keep Oil Flowing From Prudhoe Bay

BP PLC announced it would keep one side of the Prudhoe Bay oil field open as it replaces corroded pipes, enabling it to funnel up to half its previous output and avert a larger crimp in the nation's oil supply.

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Feds Order BP to Do More Pipeline Tests

Federal regulators ordered BP PLC to conduct more rigorous tests of oil pipelines Thursday as the company said it might keep nearly half of the nation's largest oil field open despite leaks and severe corrosion.

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BP Shutdown Puts Pressure on Gas Prices

The fast rise in oil prices after BP's announcement that it was shutting down one of its biggest oil fields for repairs that could take months appeared to have leveled off Tuesday morning.

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BP: Oil Output to Drop 400,000 Barrels

Oil company BP scrambled Monday to assess the pipeline corrosion that will shut shipments from the nation's biggest oil field, removing about 8 percent of daily U.S. crude production and driving oil and gasoline prices sharply higher.

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PAD SPRAYED: The 6-inch pipe carried oil, water and natural gas. A new spill has occurred at the Prudhoe Bay oil field, the Department of Environmental Conservation said Tuesday.

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Energy Policy: Oil prices have risen to a six-month high on the prospect of economic recovery. Russia plans floating reactors to power Arctic drilling. We plan to do nothing to increase supply. ...

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Gov. Sarah Palin is enmeshed in media interviews this week, presumably trying to repair her bruised image from the brutal presidential race and the malicious reporters who dogged her every step of the way.

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"Crude oil is the real 'currency' of the world," said Lindsey Williams at a gathering of the Midwest Concerned Citizens group in Kansas City on July 22.

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Vinegar is the energy industry's leading expert on the complex petroscience of transforming solid oil shale into synthetic crude - a liquid fuel that can be refined into diesel and gasoline.

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A top BP executive has acknowledged that the company withheld key documents last year from lawmakers who were investigating whether cost-cutting measures were a factor in the pipeline corrosion that caused Alaska's largest onshore oil spill.

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The loss of land previously available for subsistence hunting, together with the impact of industrial noise on offshore hunting, form just two of the issues that are causing unease about the oil and gas industry among the communities of Arctic Alaska.

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A first hand account of the natural diversity of the Arctic National Wildilfe Refuge as seen by photographer Jim M. Goldstein.

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While BP has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to prevent corrosion, some oil workers claim the company has skimped dangerously when it comes to maintaining the aging equipment that supplies crude to the West Coast.

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From the page: BP has denied suggestions that it manipulated inspection data to avoid replacing the corroded Alaskan oil pipelines, insisting it discovered "unexpectedly severe corrosion" on the pipelines only after regulators asked it to carry out major monitoring tests in Marc …

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Crude oil fell on speculation U.S. supplies will be adequate after the government offered to make up for shortfalls caused by the shutdown of Prudhoe Bay, the largest oil field in the country.U.S.

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An oil spill discovered at Prudhoe Bay field is the largest ever on Alaska's North Slope region, US officials say.

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