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“The shutdown of a satellite field on Alaska’s North Slope will not stop BP PLC from beginning the process of cleaning out a corroded transit line in the nation’s largest oil field. ‘We’re going to start a series of maintenance pigs this weekend,’ spokesman Steve Rinehart said Friday. On Thursday, BP shut down a satellite Prudhoe Bay oil field after workers detected natural gas leaking into a manifold building, a key control facility. BP closed the Lisburne production center that processes crude oil and gas coming from the Lisburne field and the neighboring Point MacIntyre oil field. The shutdown of Lisburne, a satellite field that feeds into the Prudhoe production stream, sent production down by 25,000 to 30,000 barrels per day, about 4 percent of North Slope output.” (10/02/06)