The Prudhoe Bay facility was constructed 29 years age with a design life of 20 years and planning to pump a total of 9.6 billion Barrels of oil. To this date we have pumped 14 billion barrels and exceeded the design life of the project by 9 years in a harsh arctic environment. No suprise at all that there is a lot of corrosion in the system.
Just imagine how many repairs BP could have funded if they had spent 1/2 the money they spend on global warming tv/print spots on preventative maintenance.
Quit talking rationally. It upsets the conspiracy nuts.
And in the last 5 years, BP has sucked in over 60 Billion Dollars In Profit...
If the life expectancy was 20 years, there's no excuse for not having a new system in place ready to switch over...Oh, except for greed...
They haven't run a pig through it for over 10 years. That is criminal in my opinion.