Look Thackney, doubling up shifts means you pay guys on the second and third shift the same money, and the job gets done faster. You get people who need a job and agree to those terms.
Who would pay for it? The same people that would pay for it anyway, if the job took three times longer.
Because the oil/gas industry has no lack of qualified people at this time? You don't understand how difficult it has been for a couple years to get enough qualified people for any large project.
You also are assuming that there is no change in cost. That is false. I've worked a couple 24/7 emergency rebuilds. It does not get done on a one to one scale any more than three pregnant women can have one baby in three months.
You are assuming fabrication, delivery of materials and engineered equipment all can happen three times as fast.
Again, if it could be done without cost, it would already be done. These companies don't spend billions of dollars waiting years for a single dollar in return for no reason at all. Do you really believe all of us people who run projects are stupid?
By the way, just to show we want the same thing, I’m all in favor of speeding up the overdone environmental review and public comment period for these projects. Way over done...
If I may, to give some example of the scale of the LNG export projects:
On February 23rd, 2011, Freeport LNG held an open house meeting at its terminal administration building, and the following day, another meeting was held in Lake Jackson at the Cherotel to introduce the public and stakeholders to the proposed liquefaction project. The open house meetings were well attended by landowners, residents and other interested parties.
http://www.freeportlng.com/Open_House_Meetings.asp
This was after they had done significant amount of work, conceptual engineering to decide they wanted to proceed with the project.
Construction is beginning this year. The process units are divided into three sections with staggered start/completion dates. The first unit will not be operational until 2018, the last should be completed during the following year.
http://www.freeportlng.com/Project_Status.asp