Sentence examples for pipelines down from inspiring English sources

The only shot they had at protecting themselves — and the world — was to break into oil company property and physically shut the pipelines down, they would have argued.

The damage caused by thieves also often forces oil companies to shut pipelines down.

Last month, Shell announced that it would begin running pipelines down the spine of the island.

Even bringing that ballyhooed Keystone pipeline down from Canada won't help -- in fact, it may hurt for a while, writes my former softball teammate Jonathan Alter at Bloomberg View.

The duo, part of a small group of five climate protesters known as the "valve turners," accomplished their goal of shutting the pipeline down, if only for a few hours.

The company proposing a controversial oil pipeline that would stretch from Canada to the Gulf Coast had a related pipeline shut down twice this week after it experienced power problems.

"The significance is having to shut the pipeline system down," said Michelle Egan, an Alyeska spokeswoman.

[Workers struggled Monday to repair a crucial pipeline shut down after sabotage over the weekend by looters, The Associated Press reported.

That is up from a loss of £321 million in fiscal 2002, which includes results for the gas pipeline, but down from a profit of £1.123 billion in 2001.

BP-owned Alaska pipeline shut down yesterday after a spill of several thousand barrels of oil.

The state lost revenue when the trans-Alaska oil pipeline shut down in 2006 following a large spill for which BP was responsible.