The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System carries crude oil 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope to the ice-free port of Valdez, moving oil that would otherwise be stranded far from any refinery or shipping lane. It opened to full production in 1977. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Completion Year SignificanceAn 800 mile, 48 inch diameter pipeline carrying crude oil from Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope south to the port of Valdez, one of the longest oil pipelines in the world. 1 Connections
Exemplifies
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is a landmark example of oil pipeline transport, narrower than its existing part-of edge to the broader Pipeline Transport mode
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
WikipediaIntroduction
is an 800-mile (1,287 km) long, 48-inch (1.22 m) diameter pipeline that conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay, on Alaska's North Slope, south to Valdez, on the shores of Prince William Sound in southcentral Alaska.
Current operations section
currently operates at a fraction of maximum capacity, around 470,000 barrels per day.
Construction section, pipe material
the 800 miles of 48" steel pipe was ordered from Japan in 1969.
In Group: Oil Pipelines, Lead sentence
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an oil transportation system spanning Alaska, including the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 12 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal.
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