Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Essays

Introduction Chirp! Cries a gleeful river otter as it slides down a muddy slope into the water. The river otter belongs to the weasel family, with its North American relatives that include the mink, fisher, ermine, badger, wolverine, skunk, and the marten. The typical male river is about three feet long and weighs about eighteen pounds. They are even similar to their cousin, the skunks, that spray a “musk” from two glands under their tail. However the “musk” doesn’t stink, in fact it smells sweet

Introduction Crude oil from Alaska North Slope located in Prudhoe Bay field lies 800 miles south through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to the port of Valdez, where super tankers transfer oil from the Alyeska Pipeline Terminal through Prince William Sound (PWS) and the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). March 24, 1989, the 987-foot tanker, Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in PWS, Alaska. It was the largest oil spill in U.S. history at that time. The oil slick spread thousands of square miles onto beaches in PWS affecting

with crude oil. At exactly 12:04 am, the oil tanker crashed into a reef, piercing the hull open and releasing 11 million gallons, 41 639 530 liters, of oil into the surrounding marine environment. Emergency responses by the oil company, Exxon, and the Alyeska Pipeline Company were very insufficient to contain much of the spill, while soon after, a storm blew in, spreading the oil vastly across 11,000 square miles of ocean water. Eventually, more than 1,000 miles of coastline were polluted, and hundreds