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More then you want to know about the Pipeline

 

* The Trans Alaska Pipeline System was designed and constructed to move oil from the North Slope of Alaska to the northern most ice-free port in Valdez, Alaska.

* Length: 800 miles.

* Diameter: 48 inches.

* Crosses three mountain ranges and over 800 rivers and streams.

* Cost to build: $8 billion in 1977

* Construction began on March 27, 1975 and completed on May 31, 1977.

* Over 15 billion barrels have moved through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System. tankers through Prince William Sound.

 

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