Alaskan oil shipments resume
Tankers resumed carrying oil by sea from the transfer facility in Valdez, Alaska to the U.S. mainland after government officials lifted a two-day suspension of oil shipments prompted by heightened security concerns regarding terrorist activity, Reuters reported.
The Department of Homeland Security halted tanker loading on Dec. 30 and then reopened the port of Valdez on Jan. 1, a spokesman told the news agency. Valdez handles about one million barrels of oil per day pumped through a pipeline from fields in Prudhoe Bay.