Power glitch halts BP Alaska work

British supermajor BP said up to 400,000 barrels per day of oil production was shut down by a power outage in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay early Friday.

The outage downed six Prudhoe Bay processing plants and the Northstar field. “We anticipate by end of today three of the Prudhoe processing plants plus the Northstar will be operational,” BP spokesman Steve Rinehart. The three other Prudhoe units were expected back on Saturday, he said. A snowplow ran into a power line early on Friday causing the outages, he said.

Read More