pstarr wrote:I don't see how the Trans-Alaskan pipeline ... will be maintained, much less upgraded with heaters or flow control.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
pstarr wrote:You'd also have to imagine some kind of oil terminal to load those ships. With harbor, marina, port, dry dock, support infrastructure, etc. Maybe the Russians built that stuff when there was lot of oil. We chose the pipeline instead. Probably too late to go back.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
PeakOiler wrote:pstarr wrote:What good is the long tail if it is frozen tight in an abandoned pipeline?
Above there was at least one link to article(s) that some changes in the production procedures included adding more heaters to parts of the pipeline as well as separating more of the water from the oil before it goes into the TAPS. That 300 kbpd red line in the chart above may need to be raised a bit. The red line indicates an estimate of when the flow rate through the TAPS could come to a grinding halt.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:Looking at that graph it seems like flows have plateaued in the usual bumpy fashion from mid 2012 to present. I remember they were doing a lot of field work, updating equipment, exploiting smaller known deposits and stuff like that. Any idea how long they can hold production around these levels?
Tanada wrote:Looking at that graph it seems like flows have plateaued in the usual bumpy fashion from mid 2012 to present. I remember they were doing a lot of field work, updating equipment, exploiting smaller known deposits and stuff like that. Any idea how long they can hold production around these levels?
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