I want you to understand that I don't have any expertise. I know about the pipeline in Alaska and the electric companies that haven't built anything in years. I work in wastewater treatment plants and you can laugh if you want. The lifetime of a wastewater plant is twenty years and I watch the maintenence that never goes on in them. If you work in the oil industry I really do hope you do more perodic maintence than gets done where I work because the customers suffer with what I witness. I know things can still break down though if things are done perodically the service is better for the people recieving the service or the product. If you actually work in the oil industry I hope you will understand how I feel.
And if the oil industry does more maintence than my industry does thats great.
Business is Business, is your plant a City, County or State facility?
Public utilities are front line fleecers of the Tax Payer, they do not have to make a profit, when they fail they float a bond.
Apples and Oranges
TT