Alyeska president Brigham A. McCown recently announced to company staff and TAPS contractors that they had collectively passed a significant safety milestone: 30 million consecutive hours worked without a Days Away from Work Case. » Story
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Some 420 miles of the 800-mile-long pipeline is elevated on 78,000 vertical support members due to permafrost.
Reliability Factor for Dec 2020
Reliability Factor for year 2020
There were 0 prorations during December that impacted the reliability factor.
There were 0 deferred barrels during December that impacted the reliability factor.
December throughput: 15,522,449 BBLS*
Average: 500,724 BPD**
Year 2020: 175,752,654 BBLS*
Average: 480,199 BPD**
*BBLS (barrels) = 42 Gallons
**BPD = Barrels Per Day
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