Re: Alaska North Slope may hold 36 bln bbl oil - US DOE
Posted: Thu 07 Feb 2008, 03:59:35
The project's predicated on this NG pipeline being completed; it's about twice as long as TAPS which took five years of surveying and three of construction, so I wonder where they get this 10 year timeline stuff from.
Haven't even brought up the issue of melting permafrost throwing infrastructure out of whack. Then again maybe conditions won't quite be as nasty as in the Thing; more like McCabe and Mrs. Miller perhaps?
Or earthquakes - here's an excellent articleon threats to pipelines from fault lines shifting, soil liquefaction, etc.
Haven't even brought up the issue of melting permafrost throwing infrastructure out of whack. Then again maybe conditions won't quite be as nasty as in the Thing; more like McCabe and Mrs. Miller perhaps?
Or earthquakes - here's an excellent articleon threats to pipelines from fault lines shifting, soil liquefaction, etc.