I work for a factory rep company, we sell industrial parts to multiple different markets. Being based in TX, obviously the Oil & Gas sector is a big part of our customer base. So I have a little bit of experience with the industry but I'm definitely no technical expert (I'm an office guy - IT, accounting, reporting, etc). I'd love to have someone with a bit more mechanical knowledge chime in.
I'm well aware much of the O&G industry is integrated with computer systems like any other, but the idea that there are no fail-safes for opening valves or starting pumps in an emergency situation seems completely ridiculous to me.
But it might be similar to what happened during the Texas freeze...
As I understand it, back in the day Natural Gas processing plants used old school gas-powered manual ('hand crank') ignition switches on their machinery/pumps. But after 2008, under the reign of Renegade Hussein, one of the 'green policies' he imposed was to replace them all with electronic ignition switches.
For us it was a minor boom I'm told (I wasn't working here at the time), because we happened to sell those products the industry needed to meet the regulation, but it ultimately set Texas up for disaster years later. When the Big Freeze came through, and power went out, the mid-stream natural gas companies were unable to get pumping again without the presence of electricity. In the past, they might have been able to start with gas and hand-cranking and keep working under emergency conditions, which would ultimately have restored power to the state sooner.
In other words, Obama's little 'electronic ignition switch requirements' were a minor chink in the power chain with major repercussions. Sure, it minorly boosted sales for a few companies including my own - and in general electrical switches are easier to use than manual cranks - but it removed an important fail-safe during a power outage.
Now that I'm looking back on it, it appears that there was more to Obama's Green Initiative than payouts, money-laundering, and ineffective regulations, at least in this particular case. It seems his environmental regulations were intentionally implemented to take away some protections for our power grid. Efforts to make us weaker.
This is just one example of how the Deep State has "industrially sabotaged" us for future failures. We happened to be talking about it at work yesterday, so I thought I would share with anons...
But certainly, a Pipeline being completely incapacitated by a computer hack?
...that seems like a similar situation to me. In my mind, such a thing shouldn't even be mechanically possible. Or at the very least there should be fail-safes to manually get the system running again.
It makes me wonder what other ways have we been set up for failure. These type of pre-imbedded weaknesses in the supply chain that lead to power outages, fuel shortages, and food shortages, etc... need to be identified and fixed.
I worked for a company that built automation for valves on an industrial scale. We worked under the Emerson umbrella. We sold Delta V systems and even maintain sites and helped in plant maintenance. I specifically worked in our IT department, but talking to our engineers that built the systems that handle this... it's bullshit. These systems are not connected to the internet at all. While on site with the control system, all computers and cell phones are turned off and over to the plant manager. Only computers allowed on site are provided by the plant's IT team, so during maintenance downtime at plants, they are in charge. The Delta V systems are built offsite and brought in. You would actually be amazed on how many of these valves and systems are still mechanical without computer interaction. So long story short, this has to be an attack on logistics or accounting.