Forties pipeline system Forties pipeline system The Forties pipeline system (FPS) is a major pipeline network in the North Sea carrying 30% of the UK's oil, or about of oil a day, to shore. It was formerly owned and operated by global energy company BP, who retained the asset after selling the Forties oilfield to Apache Corp. in 2003. BP reached an agreement in April 2017 to sell the network to Ineos. Over 70 assets tie BP's export lines into the FPS either directly or through intermediate hubs, eventually joining at either Forties Charlie or Forties Unity. FPS consists of a pipeline originating
LONI Pipeline LONI Pipeline The LONI Pipeline is a free distributed system for designing, executing, monitoring and sharing scientific workflows on grid computing architectures. Pipeline allows users to connect and run any number of different software tools, and conveniently visualize and download the results. Unlike other workflow processing environments, Pipeline does not require new tools and services to include or be built against the core Pipeline libraries. The Pipeline environment references all data, services and tools as external objects. This allows the Pipeline to run as a light-weight middleware, but at the same time, restrict the scope of its applications. For example,