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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
Without knowing the exact setup I can't really comment on how easy it should have been to catch (although that volume should have been easy to spot).
However in some of the new SAGD facilities, physical gauges are almost non-existent, because transmitters never fail!
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Oh man...I worked a jr. heavy oil company with thermal aspirations (I wasn't involved, I do cEOR). But if they didn't have physical gauges (or backup transmitters, etc.) on a 20" line operating at 100c + 1000kPa...then wow. What about simple material balance...or hey, how come our WH pressure is down so much today??
Not to mention a CONTRACTOR found the spill. I hope people lose jobs over this. A "fairly new line" and they have no idea how long its been leaking. Idiots.