With the review of the sea transportation of oil we looked at the different types of ships and the ways they transport their precious cargo. Now that the sea is out of the way let’s speak about the land based transport of oil. Land based pipes is said to be The most safest, efficient and the most economical of the transports seeing it is just a fixed drain with stations along the way to push the oil along. The world has currently uses about 30-40,000 types of pipelines diameter differs from 8-24 inches throughout the country to transport oil. Many located in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. One system that I would like to mention is the Trans-Atlantic Pipeline.
The Trans-Atlantic Pipeline was designed to transport oil from the Alaska northern slopes to the ice free zone port of Valdez for transport onto a ship class being that of previously reviewed. I mentioned this specific pipe line because of its sheer size and productivity for a marvel built in 1977 and still just as important. The Length of the Pipe is over 800 miles in length with a diameter of roughly 48 inches. Should anyone wish to build one for there own amusement the going cost is over 8 billion dollars (back in ’75) when the pipe was first being built.
References cited
http://www.alyeska-pipe.com/pipelinefacts.html
http://www.pipeline101.com/Overview/crude-pl.html
The Trans-Atlantic Pipeline was designed to transport oil from the Alaska northern slopes to the ice free zone port of Valdez for transport onto a ship class being that of previously reviewed. I mentioned this specific pipe line because of its sheer size and productivity for a marvel built in 1977 and still just as important. The Length of the Pipe is over 800 miles in length with a diameter of roughly 48 inches. Should anyone wish to build one for there own amusement the going cost is over 8 billion dollars (back in ’75) when the pipe was first being built.
References cited
http://www.alyeska-pipe.com/pipelinefacts.html
http://www.pipeline101.com/Overview/crude-pl.html
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Ok, but are fixed pipelines the best way to go? Efficient? Safe? What are your thoughts based on your research? Also, remember that when you use academic referencing, you need both full references (author, date, title of page, URL, etc.) but an in-text citation to match up the reference to the idea in the entry. Check out dianahacker.com/resdoc for more info on how to lay it out.
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