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To: Species8472
The Prudhoe Bay facility was constructed 29 years age with a design life of 20 years

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...

34 posted on 08/08/2006 6:22:15 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

When would you have shut dow our largest oilfield to replace the pipeline? Just curious as to when the optimun time would have been


37 posted on 08/08/2006 6:37:24 PM PDT by Figment
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To: Iscool
And in the last 5 years, BP has sucked in over 60 Billion Dollars In Profit...

Wow, 60 billion. For perspective,what was their profit as a percentage of revenue? How does that percentage compare to the average corporate 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...

Greed? Being shut down for months at a loss of $28 million dollars per day in revenue doesn't sound like greed. It's more likely that their monitoring of corrosion was inadequate or corrosion conditions in the pipe may have suddenly changed, e.g. the new occurence of sulfate reducing bacteria resulting in higher concentrations of hyrdogen sulfide gas, which especially in the presence of CO2, can rapidly accelerate corrosion.

39 posted on 08/08/2006 6:45:12 PM PDT by Titanites
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