Ok, VCJIM, we’re both in business. Don’t you know what’s going on with all your equipment at all times? And, don’t you make contingency plans based on orders so you can fulfill?
If they can build the line in the first place, surely they can get to it to inspect it. A maintainence schedule is part of any operation. Surely.
Plus, I’m no chemist, but isn’t corosion a given aspect of metal pipes? Isn’t there some kind of time period that you’d expect a pipe to last? Sort of like cars in the midwest. You know they’re not going to survive that many winters, so you save up to buy a new one, based on common sense, and experience. BP pays a lot of people to apply their experience and common sense. They all dropped the ball?
It’s late in the day. I’m so irritated by this oil news. The bottom line is I’m worried my big customers will say to me, ‘well, let’s just start producing offshore.’ They can go thru me, but they might just go direct themselves.