More pipeline rumour

ONE of Spigot's readers claims to have heard from a " base-level source" (whatever that means) inside Transnet that it has withdrawn its application for an EPC (another damned acronym) licence. He says this raises the possibility of either a new bidder or leaving iPayipi as the sole bidder. Well, Spigot did say that secrecy breeds speculation. Anyone out there able to clarify this increasingly Byzantine matter of the new Durban- to-Reef petroleum product pipeline? The murk thickens. As does the plot.