Federal regulators warned BP PLC on Tuesday that it must supply detailed and credible evidence that a temporary fix to resume oil production on Alaska’s North Slope can be done without environmental risk, the Associated Press reports.
BP must show it “can manage corrosion going forward,” Thomas Barrett, chief of the Transportation Department’s pipeline safety agency, told a Senate hearing at which oil company executives said they hope to present such a plan, possibly this week.
“We must be assured that even a temporary limited restart can be operated safely before it can proceed,” said Barrett, who took over the DOT pipeline agency this year.
