I'm not a pipeline expert, but I've been doing computers sense the early 90s. You have a pipe. It has pumps and valves. You have a computer that controls it all. The computer gets hacked. UNPLUG THE DAM COMPUTER... and plug in another one. Then restart the pumps. If they are too incompetent to figure out a workaround then get the hell out of the way and let someone else try.
If there is one thing I've learned with computers its that the guy at the console is god. There is no such thing as taking over from a remote location. Anyone that tells you differently has been watching too many movies. Send real actual human beings out the the pumps, unplug the dam computer and just turn the pump on manually. Yeah, a person might have to watch the pressure and flow rates etc rather than the computer. So the hell what. Get the dam gas flowing again morons.
As I said in my other reply. What you are really saying is a bunch of bureaucrats are going to have a meeting about it. Meanwhile they tell the technical people to turn it all off and stand down. Yet the technical people are screaming at them that they can have it back up in 24 hours. So instead of getting it up and running at all costs they sit around debating and/or worrying about their own asses, CYA.
Meanwhile the economy collapses.
I used to be that tech guy that did the dirty work. I know how this shit works.
EXACTLY - this is just to crush our economy - I can guarantee SOMEONE could have it up and running now - but they don't want that!
Mmm... not even remotely what I said.
It would appear you have over-estimated your understanding of how things outside your purview work. Nonetheless, you are free to think and believe what you like.