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curprev 21:45, 26 February 2020 Leijurv talk contribs 88,415 bytes +620 Update Future of the pipeline section, remove all 2009 predictions that did not come true, cite two new studies and a 2019 flow assurance statement from alyeska undo
Decline in oil production has posed a serious problem for the pipeline.[187] As the flow rate slows, oil spends longer in the pipeline, which allows it to cool much further while travelling to Valdez. It cannot be allowed to fall below freezing (32°F), otherwise the pipeline could seize up, crack, and rupture, as the water content would separate from the oil and freeze in place.[141] A "Low Flow Impact Study" conducted by the pipeline operators, Alyeska, concluded in June 2011 that the minimum flow for the pipeline as it currently existed was 300,000 to 350,000 barrels per day in the winter.[188]
However, this minimum flow rate is a legally contentious figure, since the taxable value of the pipeline is largely dependent on how long it will continue to be operable.[188] Later in 2011, the Alaska Superior Court ruled that this low flow study Alyeska conducted was invalid, and ruled in favor of an internal BP study.[142] The BP study concluded that with the installation of heaters along the pipeline route, the minimum flow could be lowered to 70,000 barrels per day (11,000 m3/d).[188] This court ruling increased ninefold the taxed property value of the pipeline.[189] A study by the National Resources Defence Council that was also cited in this court case put specific numbers to this suggestion, and concluded that an investment of $0.8 billion in shoring up the pipeline could extend its lifespan long enough to extract an additional $28 billion of oil from currently used areas.[188][142][190] This NRDC study additionally explained: "This is a lower minimum throughput level than what is implied in Alyeska’s Low Flow Impact Study (LoFIS). We did not use the minimum throughput level implied by LoFIS because we have serious reservations about the assumptions used in the study and the LoFIS does not provide adequate data to support its claims."[190]
we have serious reservations about the assumptions used in the study
does not provide adequate data to support its claims
Leijurv - I created this chart from source data inside the Trans Alaska Pipeline System Flow Assurance Overview January 2019
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