Talk:Colonial Pipeline

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Little confusing that we have a "History timeline" and a separate "Spill history" section. Anyone else feel like these could be merged and/or re-organized? NickCT (talk) 18:21, 1 November 2016 (UTC)


 * As a first step, I moved "Spill history" up in the article, and shortened the company "History timeline" by combining sentences into paragraphs. Given the short tenure of many presidents of the company, I wonder if this is really useful information here. None is discussed as being influential to operations. I'm a little concerned about combining the two sections and dispersing the spills among company policies and presidents. There is little in the company history as given that seems to relate to the spills or efforts to prevent them, except minor mention of uses of technology - but nothing about the results of such technology. I think we may question relying so much on one source - the book that is the company history - for all this company history material. Perhaps the company history section should be approached from the standpoint of seeing it there are other sources for that content.Parkwells (talk) 14:47, 3 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Secondly, I added the EPA complaint and landmark settlement in 2003 with Colonial under the Clean Water Act to the section on "Safety and environmental record." It is interesting that the API awarded Colonial for four years in a row during the period of some of its worst spills and EPA filing the civil complaint against them. The landmark 2003 settlement was reached after the last of these awards in 2002. I added the EPA case to the Lead, as Colonial paid the largest civil penalty in the history of these cases.Parkwells (talk) 14:47, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Articles lacks of the history of individual tubes with rising diameters. First 20 inch (inner diameter), nowadays (only two?) 36 rsp. 40 inch? Steel quality, origin/supplier, wall thickness? Allowed vs. used working pressure? Speed is maximum speed of speed profile along tube diameter? Turbulent? Thin boundary layers? What intermingling effect is bigger - adhering (laminar?) boundary or change in product quality. Typically duration of flow of same product? (E.g. 7 days gasoline then switch to kerosine. There are different quality es of gasoline, too - in octane number ROZ. Helium4 (talk) 06:29, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

Is there a concept for the time after Peak Oil? Volume of Pipeline tubes? But in difference to gas pipelines it cannot be used as a storage buffer. (Fine article!) Helium4 (talk) 06:36, 14 May 2021 (UTC)

History ... > 1963: "2-ton steel gates" does not help much to learn about the switching procedure for the flow. First the pipeline flow with batch A runs to tank A. When batch B is upcoming a kind of fork has to be switched, so that the flow with batch B runs to tank B. To handle the fork two valves are necessary. I think that the flow (velocity) in the tube is not slowed down, when switching occurs. A steel tube of 1 m diameter and 1 cm wall thickness has 10x31x0.1 = 31 dm3 wall volume. Times density 7,8 gives the weight of about 240 kg. At a valve wall thickness rises a plane shutter disc must be much thicker to resist the max. pressure. The fork with 2 valves may weigh about 2 tons. Helium4 (talk) 05:30, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

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