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SAN ANTONIO — A congressman who has been an outspoken critic of illegal immigration called for the removal Friday of the Border Patrol's chief in Laredo, saying his recent comments about the role of the agency make him unfit for the job. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican and long-shot presidential candidate, said Carlos X. Carrillo's remarks in a town hall meeting were "diametrically opposed" to the Border Patrol's mission. Carrillo spoke Aug. 15 in Laredo, a border community intimately connected by commerce and family with Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. At the meeting, Carrillo said, "The Border Patrol's job is not...

SAN DIEGO — Leather belts with brass buckles are out; nylon belts with quick-release plastic buckles are in. Slacks are out; lightweight cargo pants are in. Shiny badges and nameplates are out; cloth patches are in. The Border Patrol uniform is getting its first makeover since the 1950s to look more like military fatigues and less like a police officer's duty garb. The new uniform, introduced this week, reflects how illegal border crossings have changed in the last decade. As enforcement heightened, routes moved from the streets of San Diego and other border cities to unforgiving, often remote mountains and...

Border Patrol agents dont have the responsibility of apprehending illegal immigrants, Carlos X. Carrillo, chief patrol agent for the Laredo sector, said at a town hall meeting Wednesday."The Border Patrol is not equipped to stop illegal immigrants," Carrillo said, noting that illegal narcotics are also not on the agents priority list. "The Border Patrol mission is not to do any of those things," he emphasized. The Border Patrols mission is to keep the country safe from terrorist and terrorist weapons, he said. Carrillo added that when and if terrorists come into the country, the agents will be ready. During a...

AGUA DULCE — Border Patrol agents early Friday continued to search for several undocumented immigrants who left the scene of a train wreck Thursday in Agua Dulce. Three people died and four others were injured Thursday evening when a train hit a truck near Agua Dulce, a Texas Department of Public Safety official said. Oscar Saldaña, Border Patrol spokesman, said Friday that Border Patrol agents were looking for several other undocumented immigrants who were in the truck at the time of the accident. They fled before authorities arrived. A Kansas City Southern train struck the truck, which was attempting to...

Mexico is demanding the United States conduct an investigation following the shooting death of a man who allegedly tried to cross the border into the U.S. illegally. U.S. authorities say a border patrol agent shot and killed a suspected smuggler of illegal immigrants on Wednesday at the fence that separates the southern U.S. city of El Paso, Texas, from Mexico. U.S. authorities say the man tried to hit the agent with a rock and was holding bolt cutters in his other hand. Mexico's Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that the Mexican government opposes the use of lethal weapons "in...

Border Talk 3 I was told that this is a hysterical story and to share it with everybody. So, here it is! July 5,2007 I've been busy! Called in 4 illegal aliens while I was on my way to do some work at the front gate (Gretchen, my German Shepherd, helped again). They loaded into a BP vehicle and I went back to my tack room to get something else. Came back out to the road and another illegal was waving me down from the King Ranch side. He wanted a ride to Houston (Katy) and had some friends (4...

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators have extended their investigation into alleged oil market manipulation at BP (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research), probing trades going back an additional four years, a spokesman for the oil major said on Friday. BP said in a statement the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice were investigating aspects of BP's commodity trading activities, including crude oil trading and storage activities, in the US since 1999. The spokesman said BP had previously reported that regulators were only looking into crude trades from 2003. Regulators have also investigated BP for alleged propane markets...

BISBEE, Arizona -- An Arizona judge ruled on Monday that a U.S. Border Patrol agent must stand trial for murder for shooting dead a Mexican immigrant in a case that prompted condemnation and increased tensions with Mexico. Agent Nicholas Corbett was charged in April on four counts of homicide in connection with the January 12 shooting death of Francisco Dominguez Rivera shortly after he crossed a stretch of desert border between Douglas and Naco. Cochise County Justice of the Peace David Morales ruled on Monday the evidence supported lesser charges of second degree murder in the shooting, but tossed charges...

January shooting death of entrant nets 4 charges - A preliminary hearing to determine whether a Border Patrol agent should be charged with murder for fatally shooting a Mexican man just north of the border is set for Monday in Bisbee. Nicholas Corbett, 39, was charged April 23 with four counts of homicide in connection with the Jan. 12 shooting death of Francisco Javier Domínguez Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, about 150 yards north of the border, between Bisbee and Douglas. The shooting occurred as Corbett was trying to detain Domínguez Rivera and his brothers and sister-in-law who had entered...

The Border Patrol is beefing up its forces with thousands of new agents, and for some, that also means training their four-legged partners. Dogs play an increasingly important role in border security, and KENS 5 got a look inside the National Canine Facility in El Paso. Clay Thomas and his partner Jacko the dog search vehicles during a demonstration at the canine training facility, and in a matter of seconds, it's clear to Jacko that there's something — or someone — hidden in a truck. Jacko has a proven track record at real checkpoints, having found more than 200 people...

A BP refinery in Indiana will be allowed to continue to dump mercury into Lake Michigan under a permit issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The permit exempts the BP plant at Whiting, Ind., 3 miles southeast of Chicago, from a 1995 federal regulation limiting mercury discharges into the Great Lakes to 1.3 ounces per year.

‘Buy Feed Corn: They’re about to stop making it…’ F. William Engdahl July 26 2007 That bowl of Kellogg’s Cornflakes on the breakfast table, or the portion of pasta or corn tortillas, cheese or meat on the table is going to rise in price over the coming months as sure as the sun rises in the East. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the new world food price shock, conveniently timed to accompany our current world oil price shock. Curiously it’s ominously similar in many respects to the early 1970’s when prices for oil and food both exploded by several hundred...

ABRAM -- A man who shot at a U.S. Border Patrol agent this weekend remains at large, federal authorities said Sunday. No injuries were reported in the Saturday attack, the details of which are still under investigation, local FBI spokesman Jorge Cisneros said. The incident occurred in the small border community of Abram, near Penitas, where an agent attempted to pull over a suspected smuggler around 10 a.m. The man attacked the agent, who fired at least two shots in self-defense. At some point during the stop, the alleged smuggler fired back but missed the agent. How many shots were...

EL PASO, Texas — A Border Patrol agent shot a migrant who was crossing illegally into the U.S. through a drainage tunnel early Tuesday, the U.S. Border Patrol said. The agent, who was not identified, encountered a group of people in the tunnel around 12:30 a.m. The actions of a migrant who approached him prompted the agent to draw his weapon and fire, the Border Patrol said in a news release. The single bullet fired stuck the migrant in the left arm. He was transported to the hospital with a non-life threatening injury, according to the Border Patrol statement. The...

Even after he put him in prison for more than two years, Gary Brugman doesn't hate Johnny Sutton. But thousands of others across the country feel differently, professing a deep abhorrence for Sutton, the top federal law enforcer in San Antonio as the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas. Appointed to the job a month after the 9-11 attacks by longtime friend President Bush, Sutton has in recent months become the target of anti-illegal-immigration groups who say he's leading an unjust campaign against law enforcement officers, particularly Border Patrol agents, such as Brugman before he was convicted of...

EL PASO, Texas — An illegal immigrant drowned in a border canal Wednesday after a U.S. Border Patrol agent trying to rescue him was hit in the head with a rock thrown by a suspected human smuggler, Border Patrol officials said. The agent, who was not identified, fired at least one shot at the suspected smuggler and another would-be immigrant, who fled back into Mexico, Border Patrol spokesman Patrick Berry said. Berry said the incident started about 12:30 p.m. after agents watching video feed from a border camera saw a group of at least three men coming through a hole...

SAN ELIZARIO, Texas — A small U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter crashed in a residential area during a routine patrol along the Mexican border today, killing the pilot and critically injuring the other person onboard after slamming into a backyard and hitting a pickup truck. The pilot and passenger, who was a Border Patrol observer monitoring the area for illegal activity, were taken by ambulance to a hospital, Senior Border Patrol Agent Patrick Berry said. No one on the ground was hurt, but one resident was treated for anxiety, Berry said. A witness to the crash about 10 miles...

A Canadian man wanted for killing a father of two in New York was arrested Tuesday in the Rio Grande Valley. The U.S. Border Patrol says an agent noticed something suspicious near the river just south of Harlingen. There he found Glen Douglas Race of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Investigators say while the agent questioned Race he noticed a rifle in a bag the man had with him. When the agent went for the rifle, Race allegedly attacked the agent. “Well, he did put up a struggle. There was a scuffle and they did take him into custody after restraining him,”...

BP chief Lord Browne has quit after admitting he lied to the High Court over how he met his gay lover. Following his resignation, Lord Browne said: "In my 41 years with BP I have kept my private life separate from my business life. I have always regarded my sexuality as a personal matter, to be kept private."

A surveillance videotape currently playing on YouTube is giving a "Here we go again!" feel to the decision by prosecutors to charge yet another U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Nicholas Corbett, with murder. The video appears to involve an incident on the California border where a Border Patrol agent shoots in the chest an illegal alien who appears ready to hit him with a rock. Interestingly, there are actually two border patrol cases that fit this scenario. A date stamp on the video identifies the incident occurring on March 26, 2007, at the border near Calexico, Mexico. The video is being...

The 21-year-old man accused of shooting a Border Patrol agent in Laredo was captured by Mexican authorities in the pre-dawn hours Thursday as he tried to sneak into La Zona Roja, they said. Jordan Andrew Davidson, a U.S. citizen, was turned over to U.S. federal authorities at International Bridge I at about 10:30 a.m. and was taken to the Laredo Police Department. He is charged with attempted capital murder of a federal law enforcement officer. He was being held without bond at Webb County jail late Thursday. At police headquarters, Davidson had little to say to reporters, generally ignoring questions...

MEXICO CITY — A high-tech "virtual wall" will detect more than 95 percent of illegal crossings at the busiest jumping-off point along the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. Border Patrol chief said today. In a videoconference with reporters in Mexico, David Aguilar predicted the so-called "virtual wall" of lights, ground sensors and cameras — reinforced by more agents — will essentially halt illegal crossings along the Arizona border, the busiest section for clandestine entries. Officials expect to complete 28 miles of the high-tech system in Arizona by June, and by next year it should run into New Mexico and parts of...

A Lubbock-area man suspected of wounding a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a Wednesday afternoon shootout at the Rio Grande, was returned to the United States Thursday morning after being captured in Nuevo Laredo. “He’s in U.S. custody right now, but he hasn’t been arraigned yet,” said Border Patrol spokesman Sara Melendez. Jordan Davidson, 21, of Ranson Canyon, faces charges of aggravated assault on a police officer. Davidson is accused of shooting agent Jesus Aguilar, 28, in the hand during a confrontation at the riverbank in Laredo. “This individual was down there on the river, and set off some electronic...

SAN MANUEL — At least one Border Patrol agent has died aboard a Cessna that crashed just north of here about 12:30 p.m. The accident happened 15 miles north of San Manuel, on the Santa Fe Ranch. It's about a mile north of Brooks County. The plane was doing routine patrol in the Rio Grande Valley sector of the Border Patrol, according to the Border Patrol. The plane took off between 6 and 7 a.m. this morning from McAllen-Miller International Airport, said Phil Brown, the airport's director of aviation. Brooks County Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Oralia Morales has...

INVASION USA Citing the case of imprisoned former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean among other complaints, all 100 top leaders of the National Border Patrol Council have endorsed a no-confidence resolution against Chief David V. Aguilar. The union, which represents 11,000 of the U.S. Border Patrol's nonsupervisory field agents, pointed to Aguilar's willingness to believe the "perjured allegations" of criminal aliens over his own agents, in a statement issued today, first reported by the Washington Times. Ramos and Compean are among a number of agents who recently have been prosecuted on civil rights grounds for their actions in...

LAREDO ? Investigators with the Homeland Security Department's Office of the Inspector General have arrested a Customs and Border Protection agent on charges of aiding a smuggler who allegedly was sneaking undocumented immigrants across the Bridge of the Americas here. Jose Ramiro Arredondo, 33, is accused of helping Enrique Aguilar Rios bypass the pedestrian inspection booths at the bridge at least three times. Arredondo was arrested Tuesday afternoon. Aguilar was charged with human smuggling Jan. 9, and he told investigators that Arredondo helped him avoid being questioned by Customs agents, an arrest warrant affidavit states. Aguilar told investigators he and...

SOUTH OF DONNA — Border Patrol agents investigating a possible drug smuggling operation encountered gunfire from the Mexican side of the border Tuesday morning. No one was hurt, an agency spokesman said. The agents stopped around 7:30 a.m. just south of the intersection of Tower Road and Military Highway, after spotting a raft carrying marijuana floating near the U.S. side of the river, said Border Patrol spokesman Oscar Saldaña. As the agents approached the bank, someone across the river fired several rounds, Saldaña said. The agents returned fire, but said later that they didn’t think they hit anyone. Saldaña could...

JUNEAU — BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. will install an experimental ultra-low level crude oil leak detection system along a section of crude oil transit pipeline being replaced this winter, company officials told a state legislative committee Feb. 14. The new system will be placed on a line on the western side of the Prudhoe Bay field. The new leak detection system is one of several changes BP is making in its pipeline system following oil spill incidents and pipeline corrosion problems discovered in mid-2006. The problems led to a temporary shutdown of the Prudhoe field. Tony Brock, head of a...

JUNEAU — BP's winter pipeline replacement work on the North Slope is going full-tilt. The company and its contractors now have 250 people working on replacement of oil field pipelines in addition to company employees and contractors BP normally has on the Slope, Mike Utsler, BP's new vice president for the Greater Prudhoe Bay Area, told a state legislative committee in Juneau. BP will spend $500 million in the next two years in upgrades of its North Slope production facilities, including pipeline work, the company has said. BP has also made organizational changes to ensure the kind of problems with...

NUEVO LAREDO — Dozens of Nuevo Laredo city police officers have had their visas cancelled when they tried to cross into the United States at Laredo, according to several law enforcement sources. Some of the officers have accused U.S. Customs officials of mistreatment, saying they were handcuffed to a chair and interrogated before being sent back to Nuevo Laredo with their border crossing document — known as a visa láser — revoked. Guillermo Landa Gudiño, head of the city’s public safety division and the erstwhile police chief, said he believes the U.S. agents are responding to a list of about...

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. said it will seek approval this year for a $1 billion project to develop its Liberty oil field. BP is spending $30 million this year in engineering studies and permitting for the project, according to Carl Lundgren, Liberty project manager. The company had 25 people dedicated to the project last year and will add to that number in 2007, he said. Lundgren and other BP officials recently briefed state House Ways and Means Committee members on upcoming projects that will result in more oil being produced. Liberty is in the Beaufort Sea five miles offshore from...

BP isn’t just replacing transit lines at Prudhoe Bay, where leaks last year resulted in a partial field shutdown in August. The company is rebuilding the entire transit line system, a process that will take until the end of 2008 to complete and includes 20 new modules and a pilot leak-detection system. BP Exploration (Alaska)’s new senior vice president for Greater Prudhoe Bay operations, Mike Utsler, and Tony Brock, vice president and technical director, briefed Senate Resources Feb. 14 on the status of the cleanup and replacement following transit line leaks last year. Utsler told the committee he’s been in...

Investigation spurred by Hamel’s well cellar leak accusations vindicates company The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has issued its report on its investigation into allegations by oil industry watchdog Charles Hamel concerning drilling pad and tundra contamination from BP-operated Alaska North Slope wells. Hamel told AOGCC in June 2006 that BP employees had notified him that oil was leaking into some well cellars and that the oil was escaping into gravel well pads and tundra ponds. Hamel accused AOGCC and the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation of being complicit in allowing the alleged contamination to continue. Hamel also said...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has called for answers from the Department of Justice, border patrol and prison officials regarding the prosecution and imprisonment of Border Patrol Agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos. Senator Feinstein yesterday sent letters to: U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, asking for specific information concerning the extreme sentences received by the border patrol agents and the recent report that Agent Ramos had been beaten while serving his sentence in federal prison. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner W. Ralph Basham, discussing the recently-released...

An unprecedented $500 million grant to develop new biofuels has been awarded to a consortium led by UC Berkeley, making the Cal campus the international hub of research on clean energy and the Bay Area the potential crucible of a new post-oil economy. Sources in Sacramento said Wednesday that UC Berkeley, teamed with the University of Illinois, has won a hard-fought international competition to land the Energy Biosciences Institute, funded by British Petroleum. ... Another focus is bioengineering, in which scientists are designing new genetic operating systems that code specially bred microbes to make hydrocarbons, which could be brewed in...

David Sipe is a once convicted criminal who can honestly say he "didn't do it." "Relief. Relief. After 7 years, it's gone. It's over." The ex-border patrol agent gets a 2001 guilty verdict overturned in his retrial for civil rights violations against a smuggler. The incident dates back to April of 2000 in Penitas. "He was striking me in the side... he was very close to my weapon... and I had to do what I could to control the situation as fast as I could." Fearing for his life, David subdues the smuggler by hitting him with his flashlight. It...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - Illegal border crossings appear to have dropped along Mexico's border with New Mexico and West Texas. The U.S. Border Patrol said the number of illegal immigrants caught during the first three months of this federal fiscal year, which started Oct. 1, was down 38 percent compared with the same three months of the previous fiscal year. Some 15,464 illegal immigrants were caught in the area during the period. The decline is due to more Border Patrol agents and the presence of the National Guard as part of a federal effort to ramp up security along...

BROWNSVILLE — A former U.S. Border Patrol agent was acquitted Friday of using excessive force to arrest an illegal immigrant in a retrial of a 2001 case. A federal jury said David Sipe was not guilty of using excessive force against Jose Guevarra on April 5, 2000. The case was first tried in front of Judge Ricardo Hinojosa in McAllen’s U.S. District Court in 2001. At the time, a jury found Sipe guilty after a five-day trial. But while preparing for sentencing in the 2001 case, Sipe’s attorney, Jack Lamar Wolfe, found evidence the U.S. Attorney’s Office had withheld information...

- The Mexican suspected drug smuggler granted immunity in the controversial - and politically explosive - prosecution of two U.S. Border Patrol agents is not entirely off the hook. U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, the man at the center of the row over the prosecution and jailing of the two agents who shot the illegal immigrant, confirmed to Cybercast News Service Thursday that there is an ongoing investigation into Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila and others. Aldrete-Davila had been driving a van containing 743 pounds of marijuana on Feb. 17, 2005, the day border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean shot and wounded...

Benny Parsons, a former taxi driver turned NASCAR champion, died Tuesday after a short battle with lung cancer, his son Keith said. He was 65. Parsons, the 1972 NASCAR champion, died in Charlotte, N.C. He was diagnosed with cancer in his left lung in July after complaining of difficulty breathing. A former smoker who quit the habit in 1978, Parsons underwent intensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments and was declared "cancer-free" in October. But the aggressive treatment cost Parsons the use of his left lung, and he was hospitalized Dec. 26 when doctors found a blood clot in his right lung....

In a windowless room in an ultra-secure wing of the Rio Grande Valley's Border Patrol sector headquarters, a huge map erupts into a telling pattern of red dots. It's a real-time picture of hundreds of agents making apprehensions, data that streams into the "Border Intelligence Center" through global positioning systems, tripped sensors, and reports called in from agents in the field and on the Rio Grande. It's a user-friendly mapping system that, in the year since beginning operations, has helped the Border Patrol uncover smuggling routes and find drugs, officials said. In December, for example, drug seizures were up 181...

(RTTNews) - BP Plc (BP | charts | news | PowerRating), the world's second largest publicly traded oil company, said Friday that John Browne, 58, has decided to retire as chief executive at the end of July 2007. The London-based company said Browne will be succeeded by its exploration and production chief Tony Hayward, who will take over as BP's group chief executive on August 1. Browne was under intense pressure after a series of high-profile mishaps including a deadly refinery blast in Texas and a giant oil spill in Alaska tarnished company's reputation with investors and the public. Peter...

BP executives were aware of problems with equipment well before an explosion at the company's Texas City, Texas, refinery in March 2005 killed 15 workers and injured 180 others, U.S. federal investigators said on Monday. "The CSB's investigation shows that BP's global management was aware of problems with maintenance, spending, and infrastructure well before March 2005," said Carolyn W. Merritt, chairman of the Chemical Safety Board, in a press release. "Unsafe and antiquated equipment designs were left in place, and unacceptable deficiencies in preventative maintenance were tolerated," she said. The explosion at the Texas City refinery was the worst workplace...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- BP PLC (BP) said Monday its Alaska Prudhoe Bay output has returned to its pre-shutdown August level of over 400,000 barrels a day. The U.K. oil major also said it intends to spend an extra $1 billion, on top of the $6 billion already earmarked, to upgrade its Alaska production facilities and its U.S. refineries. BP shut-own half of production at the Prudhoe Bay oil field it operates in response to a small spill and unexpected corrosion found on its pipeline Aug. 6. But, in a statement on its Web site, dated Thursday but which it says...

Initial test results on five miles of pipeline in the Prudhoe Bay oil field indicate that the 34-inch line is serviceable, Alaska BP spokesman Daren Beaudo said. However, it will be another couple of weeks before all the data can be evaluated, he said. The line was checked by a device called a "smart pig," which uses ultrasound to check for pipe irregularities and thinned walls caused by corrosion, the problem blamed for an August leak on a companion pipeline that forced the company to partially shut down the field. BP contracts with a company to run the tests and...

OCT. 16 7:05 P.M. ET Production has been nearly restored to the Prudhoe Bay oil field where high winds last week coated electrical insulators with dirt, temporarily shutting down the nation's largest oil field. Production stood at over 350,000 barrels Monday with electrical service restored to all the main oil production facilities and workers' camps at the BP PLC-operated field in extreme northern Alaska, said BP Alaska spokesman Steve Rinehart. Production was expected to increase to a near capacity of 400,000 barrels a day over the next few days as workers continue to clean off insulators. "There is some follow-up...

BP was ordered to scrape pipelines but told regulators it wasn't necessary --- WASHINGTON - Alaskan regulators ordered BP four years ago to clean out sediment from pipelines carrying crude from America's largest oil field, Prudhoe Bay. Two months later, Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation relaxed the order, accepting the company's argument that scraping out the lines was not necessary. BP officials now suspect bacteria growing between accumulated sediment and the pipeline wall may have caused the corrosion that created leaks in two major transit lines — a crisis that forced BP to shut down part of Prudhoe Bay in...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — America's largest oil field will produce very few barrels over the next several days as operator BP scrambles to fix an electrical problem. So far, the loss of 300,000 barrels a day of Alaskan output has not rattled oil markets. BP PLC said electrical shorts that shut down Prudhoe Bay on Tuesday followed three days of dust storms, and then rain, coating insulators on high-voltage lines with mud. The London-based company, which has faced intense criticism following two oil leaks in Alaska over the past seven months, said the shutdown of its power system was not a...

Border Patrol agents, “trapped” between two layers of border fencing could be sitting ducks for Mexican drug smugglers and coyotes, warns T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council. A 700-mile double-layer fence approved for construction along the U.S.-Mexico border, including a Brownsville-to-Laredo stretch, makes patrolling agents vulnerable to attacks. “The agents get trapped,” Bonner said, adding that the gates to exit the fence corridor are about a quarter-mile apart. “You can see where the gates are. It’s very clear. The smugglers know that there is no exit for our agents.” The agency does not keep statistics on incidents...

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. A pig is a device that moves through the inside of a pipeline to clean or inspect the line. 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...