[ruiner]

Ummm, am I missing something here? Whaddya think its like when we currently drill into oil and gas reservoirs 15,000 feet below the surface of the earth and is, in turn, 5,000 feet below the surface of the ocean? NOW THAT'S PRESSURE!!

The spindletop days are over people! This shouldn't be an issue!

[El Laton Caliente]

A company I worked for had a group go to Russia for an oil field design project. The Russian pipeline contractor asked what the engineering "leak percentage allowance" was.

When the American engineers told them ZERO, they said it was imposible.

Our guys then told them about the US contractors hydrotesting pipelines to 150% of the design pressure and their jaws dropped.

This is RUSSIANS were talking about!