Not exactly related but this made me think back to my early days as a Geologist. One of the first projects I worked on was in NE India. There was a series of NG pipelines through the area to deliver the produced gas from the fields and the pipelines generally ran through large tea fields (which was no easy task to negotiate access for.) Along the way there was the occasional towns and in those areas the pipelines needed constant security because the local villagers would frequently tap the pipelines to get gas to their homes and shops. It was pretty ridiculous and ingenious what some folks would do to tap the pipeline. I was told that every week they would have to remove a couple of lines from the pipeline and make repairs.
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