The oil companies, relatively battle hardened, have given no sign that they they plan to pull people out of Indonesia unless there are sustained attacks against their installations.
Large diameter pipelines installed in these areas are exposed to the severe pressure loading resulting from the water depth and any pre-installation damages sustained during transportation or pipelay and may reduce the collapse and buckle propagation resistance drastically.
The wall thickness is determined from the loads that the pipeline must sustain in both installation and operating conditions.
For well over a year, China has been ignoring global protestations by pouring massive amounts of sand onto submerged coral reefs and sandbars in the Spratlys, building up enough land to sustain a military installation.
The DART conducts joint reception, staging, onward-movement and Integration of inbound OPCON forces and establishes base support installations and /or forward operating bases for sustaining operations.
Ezekiel lay on one side for 390 days, staring at a kind of "installation" of Jerusalem, sustained by bread baked on human turds.
Services to be provided include design, engineering, installation, start-up and commissioning, including sustained operations for the bulk gas pad.
In a future where seawater is a key resource for urban environments, this installation shows an ecosystem that's sustained through the salty liquid.
Implementation, the installation of the adopted idea into a sustained recognizable behavior pattern within the organization (Pierce & Delbecq, 1977, pp. 29; see also Thompson, 1965; Zaltman, Duncan, & Holbek, 1973, pp. 155).
