Dodge going Electric

[Randy Wells]

Originally Posted by r429469

The T-A pipeline heats the oil at the first pump station.

I have worked at Pump 1, they do heat some of the oil. The oil coming from North Star is heated because it comes from a man made island about 10 miles away and about 5 miles of the pipe is under the arctic ocean, but the oil comes out of the ground at around 130 F and is over a 100F when it enters the TAP's. Flow Rates keep it heated on its journey to Valdez.

The reason refineries in areas where they were not designed for the cold shut in, is the instrumentation impulse lines freeze, 3/8" 1/2" tubing that has no heat trace, with out these permissive's things shut down.

Randy