The pipeline was built in the 1970's after oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay
The pipeline was built in the 1970's after oil was discovered at Prudhoe Bay
Samuel Van Syckle,
1970, and built in 1973
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I think they have already started
C Y O'Connor was an engineer who was famous for building the goldfields pipeline known as the Golden Pipeline. Unlike the goldfields in the east, the western goldfields were dry and arid, and miners lacked access to fresh water. The Golden Pipeline extends 560 km from Mundaring Weir near Perth to Kalgoorlie in the goldfields. It was built during the 1890s.
Joy Lefroy has written: 'The Pipeline O'Connor Built'
The Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline, which is owned by the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, was built to bring crude oil from the North Slope at Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, the most ice-free port in Alaska.
It is my understanding that there can be no permanent structures within a pipeline easement. Trees are also excluded. Row-crop farming, hay/pasture production, and livestock activities are usually permitted. Roads can usually be built (with pipeline operations approval) across the pipeline easement at no less than a 45 degree angle.
I would be inclined to believe that the pipeline was built above ground to avoid destroying the terrain that it runs through.Also dealing with the permafrost would prove costly and would have taken much longer to finish.Besides it makes maintaining it much easier.
Pipeline free span is the section of pipeline that is suspended.