Talk:Prudhoe Bay oil spill

message: This article does not state anything about how it happened.
Redmarkviolinist 21:11, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: BP: Learning from oil spill lessons - Johnson, Beaudo explain what they think happened in Prudhoe Bay’s largest spill and what the company is learning from the incident, Petroleum News, seems to have the most useful coverage I've seen so far. It gets pretty specific on the corrosion and location as well as discussion of why the leak wasn't immediately detected. It's from May 14, 2006 so there might be a more recent article that explains even more detail. --Dual Freq (talk) 02:45, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

text: GC-2 Oil Transit line release - Unified Command Joint Information Center, appears to be a good source for detailed information on the spill. --Dual Freq (talk) 22:52, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What happened?

message: This looks like somebody pasted in their high school essay and tried to rewrite the references section with superscript. I'll be removing huge chunks of it over the next few days, since it's mostly original research. Cumulus Clouds (talk) 23:24, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:OR]]

message: So why isn't this called "The British Petroleum Alaska oil spill" Exxon got a name for theirs.
:BP may yet spill more oil in Alaska, which is the reason for the specific naming conventions of Wikipedia. Beam 04:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, the famous spill in 1989 in Alaska wasn't named after Exxon (the company), it was named after the Exxon Valdez, which was the name of the tanker that the oil spilled out of.  Saffi Anne (talk) 04:13, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk from the 2006 Alaskan oil spill talk page 

message: The map doesn't seem to have a reference point, just the entire state of AK.  Can that be fixed?Mzmadmike (talk) 13:49, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure it can! Did you make a new map? Beam 04:26, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: I just felt the whole article was all over the place. If what I did made it worse (as I didn't change any content, just moved it) please just roll back the whole thing and I'll try again tomorrow. Either way I'll be back. Maybe ;) If I do come back I'd actually make the "Immediate Impact" section make even more sense with a little more detail on what happened, and the immediate effects on the environment etc. Of course, that's just my theory of what the section could be. The previous authors made it something different, I just don't think it read well.. but that could just be the content itself. Beam 04:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reading it from top to bottom 

message: DOJ documents for help in article research:
Oct 2012 Oil Spills on the North Slope of Alaska
In October, 2007, British Petroleum Exploration... 
March 31, 2009
United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against BP Exploration for Oil Spills on North Slope in Alaska 
Oct 2007 Fact Sheet: Prosecution of Environmental Crimes by the Environment and Natural Resources Division 
Oct 2007 British Petroleum to Pay More Than $370 Million in Environmental Crimes, Fraud Cases  
Some basic facts: 
On the North Slope of Alaska, BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. (BPXA) operates several oil fields, including Greater Prudhoe Bay, which is the largest oil field in North America and one of the oldest on the North Slope. In two major oil spills in the spring and summer of 2006 BPXA illegally discharged an estimated 213,242 gallons of crude oil from its pipelines into Prudhoe Bay.
Investigators from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) determined that the spills were a result of BPXA’s failure to properly inspect and maintain the pipeline to prevent corrosion. PHMSA issued a Corrective Action Order (CAO) to BPXA that addressed the pipeline’s risks and ordered pipeline repair or replacement.  EPA  investigated the extent of the oil spills and oversaw BPXA’s cleanup. When BP XA did not fully comply with the terms of the corrective action, EES filed a complaint in March 2009 alleging violations of the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the Pipeline Safety Act. Gandydancer (talk) 15:02, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks for those documents!  I finally got here after working through the north slope and the prudhoe bay oil field articles.  I created a new section on the field, and worked on the section on the spill itself.  hopefully some of the context I added is helpful to understanding what happened on this "transit line".  I really scored with this source  http://internationalmapping.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/BP_Alaska.swf  which finally showed me just where this leak happened. The transit pipe is only 8 miles long and is super important.  Hmmm.    I left a REALLY lame couple of sentences at the end of the Oil Field section that I MUST go back and fill in, but I am tired and it is time to get to bed.  I want to say, factually and plainly, what the actual inspection timeline and leak detection system was, at the time the spill was identified.   Those sentences are just a marker for that - I do not intend to leave them that way!   Just don't want to be accused of 'sanitizing' anything.   And this is as far as I got.  I didn't get into the "immediate impact" section or anything beyond that.  Jytdog (talk) 04:39, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thoughts on improving the article...