It may be a case of not being able to produce the size of pipe required at the drop of a hat. How many pipe mills operating in the USA right now? what size pipe producing? The companies that produced the pipe for the Alaska pipeline are long gone, Armco Steel in Houston and US Steel in Baytown TX, shut down after that project
lots of you guys in the know make great points. I’m kind of shocked at the Washington times as they are usually on our side. It doesn’t matter. In 1400 days all people are going to care about is that they are working and making good money and they are safe.
One is US Steel. There are several others.
But, like you said, not as many as used to be. And this is a product that cant be simply produced at a high rate and set into the manufacter inventory.
Not like other types of pipe.
“It may be a case of not being able to produce the size of pipe required at the drop of a hat. How many pipe mills operating in the USA right now?”
From CNN:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/03/news/companies/trump-keystone-pipeline-american-steel/index.html
“TransCanada said late Friday it has already has purchase agreements for the steel pipe it will use on Keystone. It said half of the pipe will come from the Arkansas plant of India-based steelmaker, Welspun. Another 10% will come from a Welspun plant in India, the rest will be imported from Canada and Italy. In addition, it has already purchased about $800 million worth of other goods from U.S. manufacturers.”