Thursday, November 09, 2006

Fire at small Wyoming oil pipeline extinguished - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Firefighters on Wednesday extinguished a fire at an oil tank near a petroleum pipeline in Uinta county, Wyoming, prompting the shutdown of the small gathering pipeline leading to it, according to the local fire department.
The tank was owned by privately-held Bridger Lakes LLC, according to Eric Quinney, the chief administrative officer of the Uinta County Fire Department.
Quinney said there were no injuries, although Interstate 80 was shut for over two hours due to the blaze.
The pipeline and the tank are part of a crude oil gathering system according to the website of Riverway Petroleum Partners LLC, Bridger Lakes' parent company.
The line carries 700 barrels of crude oil per day to Pacific Energy Partners LP Rocky Mountain Pipeline, which serves the Salt Lake City, Utah market.
"This was a small gathering line that moved oil into their (Bridger's) storage tank, and this incident has had no effect on our pipeline or our deliveries to Salt Lake City," said a Pacific Energy Partners spokesperson.

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