[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

I would suspect this crude goes into, or has the capability to go into storage tanks somewhere along the line...I assume that would have been part of the initial planning stage to compensate for any maintenance operations...

A scheduled repair would be far less costly in downtime compared to shutting down and replacing the entire piping system...

[Titanites]

I would suspect this crude goes into, or has the capability to go into storage tanks somewhere along the line...I assume that would have been part of the initial planning stage to compensate for any maintenance operations...

How is the crude supposed to get to or leave the tanks if the tranport pipeline is leaking?

[Figment]

"I would suspect this crude goes into, or has the capability to go into storage tanks somewhere along the line.."


I don't know the details on this pipeline. Normally you have two parallel pipelines with crossovers for problems such as this. It seems today BP is saying no big problem after all