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Over the next decade, nearly 2,500 kilometres of pipeline are forecast to be ‘made safe’ in the SNS and Irish Sea.
Activity is forecast to peak at just over 600 kilometres of pipeline in 2016, and varies significantly over the next
ten years. The spikes in pipeline ‘making safe’ activity generally precede the spikes in pipeline decommissioning
activity shown in section 7.4. It is expected that activity will smooth out as forecasts are revisited.
Figure 15: Forecast Kilometres of Pipeline for ‘Making Safe’ in the Southern North Sea and Irish Sea
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Kilometres of Pipeline
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Pipeline 'making safe'
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