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To: Second_Titan who wrote (77813)	11/3/2000 11:50:33 AM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Breakdowns Bedevil Alaska Pipeline By Peter Behr Washington Post Staff Writer With the arrival of the winter heating season, the nation is once again critically dependent on its largest single source of crude oil, the 1 million barrels that flow each day down the 800-mile-long pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to the tanker terminal in Valdez. But regulators' confidence in that 23-year-old delivery system has been shaken by a series of accidents and breakdowns at the Valdez Marine Terminal last month that forced the closing of one of the two fully functional primary oil loading berths. The Joint Pipeline Office, the Alaska-based team of federal and state regulators that oversees the pipeline and terminal, has launched a broad inquiry into last month's problems. It wants to know whether terminal operations have been jeopardized by several years of reduced spending on basic maintenance by Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., the oil company consortium that operates the pipeline and terminal, said Jerry Brossia, JPO's chief officer. ... washingtonpost.com