The US state department, which in March issued a permit approving the pipeline, estimated that a leak would convey enough oil to reach a protected body of water once every 542 years.
The owner of the broken line, Plains All American Pipeline, estimated that up to 105,000 gallons of crude oil were released underground with the rupture, with about a fifth of that reaching the ocean.
The potential harm to industrial facilities could be larger than estimated (pipelines: estimate = 32%, range = 24 70%; industrial areas: estimate = 25%, range = 20 64%) (Fig. 2b).
Hashim Abdul Ghafour Shakir, deputy director of the government-run Oil Pipelines Company, which manages 4,200 miles of pipelines, estimated that there was an average of one attack per day by guerrillas or looters on the pipelines between here and Baghdad.
Mr. Lesar declined to discuss the amount of money at issue, but said all calculations of loss or profit on deals like the Brazil pipeline are estimates until such disputes are resolved.
The proposed decision support system automatically assigns appropriate inspection and renewal methods for each pipeline and estimates associated costs, resulting in effective and practical sewer infrastructure management from various perspectives, with corresponding levels of detail.
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We built a pipeline to estimate the strength of natural selection (dN/dS ratio, ω) and support for convergence (ΔSSLS) for each amino acid by maximum likelihood.
Hal Kvisle, chief executive of TransCanada PipeLines, also of Calgary, which operates one of the continent's most extensive gas pipeline networks, estimated that without any new discoveries, Canada's output would drop by 20percentt a year.
The article calculated that the pipeline project, estimated to cost $15 billion to $20 billion, would require twice the annual steel output of Japan, or enough steel to give each inhabitant of the world enough cutlery for six table settings.
