• TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca
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    1 month ago

    For people who may not realize or have experience with the petrochemical industry. Even if you ignore the revenue loss of this which would be obviously significant, there is a real risk with a lot of refineries especially those that use continual processing that they may have never stopped running some of their operating equipment outside of scheduled maintence, and likely never had all of any redundant systems down at the same time.

    The act of shutting down these processes is a costly time consuming endeavour that takes planning and thousands of personnel.

    The act of restarting these processes is similar.