All Chinese Steel Pipe Used in the Oil and Gas Industry Must Go Through Rigorous Inspections

By Lance Winslow

Everybody's looking at the BP oil spill and agrees that it is a horrible environmental disaster, but it is my contention that there will be many more environmental disasters, on a smaller scale due to the fact that the Chinese are using iron ore to make steel pipes, and that iron ore is not of the same quality is the iron ore that the United States is used to using. The iron ore in the United States is very pure, but many of the iron ore mines around the world do not contain very pure iron ore. This means when the process is completed and Chinese steel pipes are made, they won't be as strong.

This could be a huge problem if you're building a bridge that you'd like to have last over 100 years, or a skyscraper that you don't ever want to fall down, not even in an 8.0 earthquake. Likewise, British Petroleum reminded us that in the event of an oil leak, and with incredible pressures under the ocean, the last thing you want is faulty pipes, or Chinese steel pipes that cannot take the 70,000 pounds per square inch pressure. There hasn't been a lot of talk about this, and I imagine the reason is we don't want to start another trade war with China.

It seems that the Chinese are already upset that we have put tariffs on Chinese steel pipe, and claim that they are dumping on our market at prices less than it costs them to manufacture the pipe. Further, we know that they are paying their workers very much in those factories, and we also know that they don't have any environmental controls that we are used to in the United States. As a human have to breathe the air, and knowing that the dust in China from the Gobi desert blows real hard, and often ends up in the United States, I imagine some of their pollution gets here to.

Not only are they expecting us to buy their cheap pipes, and faulty steel products, apparently they want us to also breathe the air and pollution from their manufacturing processes, and it is not just pipe, remember China is practically America's factory floor, and they are putting out a ton of pollution.

My solution is simple; all the Chinese pipe which is manufactured in China and exported to the United States for the oil and gas industry be required to go through rigorous Inspections. We must know in advance before we put those pipes in the place that they can withstand the pressure, not rust out, and they are of the structural integrity we need to make it work. Please consider all this.

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