PRLog (Press Release)– Jul 21, 2011– Oil & Gas IQ: First of all, I would like to ask you, what are the implications for operators who are unlucky enough to have a subsea pipeline struck by an anchor?
R Palmer-Jones: There are a number of things that may happen. The first thing that could happen is that the anchor could cause a total rupture of the pipeline. This obviously has major consequences for the operator. In terms of knowing what to do, it's pretty straightforward. You have to shut dow audi n and you have to get it fixed as soon as possible with a replacement section. In more complex cases, in some ways this is where you have severe damage but the pipeline hasn't actually failed, because then you have a lot of uncertainty about whether it may peril in a short time auto part or whether you've got a long time to respond to it, how severe that damage is and how you can repair it. Do you need to shut down totally, which has a huge impact obviously on production and loss of revenue and so on? So if you do have an anchor strike, you've got a lot of issues to consider, particularly if you don't have an immediate failure. Obviously if you have an immediate failure, that's terrible, but rare. Where you've got d acura amage, you've got some hard choices to make on what you're going to do next.
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