Monday, July 2, 2007

BP Halts Gas Flows at Teesside Terminal After Damage From Ship's Anchor

(Bloomberg) -- BP Plc, Europe's second-largest oil
and natural-gas company, halted flows of natural gas through a
U.K. North Sea gas pipeline, cutting potential deliveries of
more than a tenth of Britain's domestic gas production.

BP decided ``to temporarily suspend operation'' of the
Central Area Transmission System, or CATS, pipeline, which
carries supplies of gas to the Teesside sub-terminal in
northeast England, Joanne McDonald, a spokeswoman for the
company based in Aberdeen, said today in a phone interview.
Flows stopped yesterday afternoon, she said.


Read more at Bloomberg Energy News

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