Comment: HOW TO SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE THE NORTH SEA

摘要

In mid February, a fishing boat sank off the coast of Yell, Shetland (Scotland) and came to rest very close to a gas pipeline. The creel boat lay within metres of BP's Magnus EOR gas pipeline, which transports gas to the Magnus field to help with oil extraction. The pipeline was unharmed, but the coast guard set up a 500 m exclusion zone around the site, as a precaution.