The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was restarted at 10:18 a.m. today after a roughly 58-hour shutdown to allow repair work to deal with a leak.
The Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. shut down the 800-mile pipeline early Saturday morning to install a bypass pipe around the leak at Pump Station 1, where the pipeline starts on the North Slope. The shutdown was expected to last 36 hours.
Workers installed a 157-foot pipe around the leak discovered nine days ago at a booster pump at the pump station.
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation says sealing and draining the pipe took longer than expected.
After the leak was discovered, Alyeska shut down the pipe for about 84 hours and production at the more than two dozen oil fields was reduced to a trickle.
The oil fields normally produce about 630,000 barrels a day of oil -- $50 million a day worth -- or about 11 percent of U.S. domestic production.
Oil companies BP, Conoco Phillips, Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries and Chevron.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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