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Originally Posted by Whynotnow

This was building a pipeline but it wasn’t pipelining like anyone has seen in a long, long time. Pipelines are easy to build in open spaces and you essentially have a moving assembly line going down the right of way in a continuous stream, It can be highly productive and efficient. This was just congested, hard rock, with utilities all around you, highways, tie in after tie in. In other words, in normal conditions a nightmare to estimate and construct,

This was not normal conditions - strict conditions placed in it during approvals. As you stated, massive flooding cutting their row up even further, forest fires requiring other mitigation, COVID absolutely crushing them and this is what happens. The original estimate was probably grossly off, it was done by pipeliners not imaging the full scale of the complexity. Add in the rest and poof you have yet another massive project with a massive over run, and the pipeline industry has its fair share of those for lots of reasons that I could go on for hours about,

Pretty much a perfect storm!