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2.136 million bbl/d (339,600 m 3 /d) Diameter. 48 in (1,219 mm) No. of pumping stations. 12. 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.
The construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System included over 800 miles (1,300 km) of oil pipeline, 12 pump stations, and a new tanker port. Built largely on permafrost during 1975–77 between Prudhoe Bay and Valdez, Alaska, the $8 billion effort required tens of thousands of people, often working in extreme temperatures and conditions ...
Frank P. Moolin Jr. (1934–1982) was the senior engineer in charge of the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. He graduated from the University of Chicago magna cum laude with an engineering degree. Moolin worked on various projects, including a refinery in Singapore and San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit System.
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company began planning for an emergency after heavy flooding in 2019, but some experts worry that it may be too little, too late. Battles to save the Trans-Alaska Pipeline ...
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act of 1973 is a United States federal law signed by US President Richard Nixon on November 16, 1973, that authorized the building of an oil pipeline connecting the North Slope of Alaska to Port Valdez.
The state-led project calls for an 800-mile pipeline carrying natural gas from the North Slope so it can be liquefied in Southcentral Alaska and exported to Asian markets in oceangoing tankers.
The Alaska corporation commonly known as Alyeska Pipeline Company was founded in 1970 to design, construct, operate and maintain a pipeline to transport oil from the fields on the North Slope of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 to an ice-free deep-water port in Valdez, Alaska.
English: A map of the route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, showing pump stations, cities, roads, mountain ranges and passes, and bodies of water.
Language links are at the top of the page across from the title.
T. Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act. Categories: Crude oil pipelines in the United States. Oil infrastructure in Alaska. BP. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
