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Old 06-02-2016, 02:45 PM   #2540
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Originally Posted by GGG View Post
It wasn't stumbled on by chance. It was a shell pilot who reported the spill. One of the mitigations for pipeline monitoring is having regular staff who will be around the route. So one of the leak detection methods for this pipeline worked.
This is the part that people are missing out on the helicopter was a shell pilot, and it sounds like they do fairly regular inspections.

We'll have to wait and see what the report says about them not sensing the leak through the sub sea pipe.
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