BP PLC denied allegations made by unidentified BP workers that the company had manipulated data from the pieline inspections at Prudhoe Bay, where operations have been cut down this month following a pipeline leak.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is probing allegations that BP inspected more areas of known good pipe than bad and thus manipulated data in order to avoid replacing pipelines. Days after the pipeline leak and subsequent shutdown, Transportation Department's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration had ordered the firm to conduct more rigorous tests on the transit pipelines.
BP spokesman, Robert Wine said that the company has been working with the DOT and the EPA ever since the original leak and would provide any information required for the investigations.
Alaska Attorney General David Marquez said that the state had served subpoenas on BP and other leaseholders in Prudhoe Bay to preserve all documentation related to the Aug. 6 pipeline leak and corrosion dating to 1996.
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