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Article: Generators provide replacement power at Alaskan pipeline's Yukon River Pump Station.
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- Diesel Progress North American Edition
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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The sales force, project engineers and technicians from Pacific Detroit Diesel-Allison's (PDDA) Anchorage, Alaska, location range over a vast and rugged territory, from southeast Alaska to Siberian Russia. In that service area is the Alaskan pipeline, which stretches 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay in the north to Valdez in southeastern Alaska.
A slowdown in the rate which crude oil is flowing over the Trans-Alaska Crude Oil Pipeline between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez opened up an opportunity for PDDA in Anchorage. Since the 17,300 hp gas turbine engines that power the pumps at Pump Station Six on the Yukon river were placed on standby, PDDA was called on to design and ...