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The core pipeline itself, which is commonly called the Alaska pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline, or Alyeska pipeline, (or The pipeline as referred to by Alaskan residents), 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 ...
The main pipeline was used as a products pipeline, while its end part transported oil from the Krasnodar fields to Tuapse. The pipeline was built in a move for the country to export as much oil as possible to bring in foreign currencies, as part of the First Five-Year Plan. [1] Since 1894, the oil was transported out of Grozny through train ...
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, the invention of specialized construction techniques ...
The pipeline has been constructed by the Blue Stream Pipeline B.V., the Netherlands based joint venture of Russian Gazprom and Italian Eni. The Blue Stream Pipeline B.V. is an owner of the subsea section of pipeline, including Beregovaya compressor station , while Gazprom owns and operates the Russian land section of the pipeline and the ...
Environmental groups on Wednesday petitioned the U.S. Department of Interior to review climate impacts related to the decades-old trans-Alaska pipeline system and develop a plan for a “managed ...
Gas can still travel from Russia to Europe via the Turkstream pipeline, but no longer through Ukraine, cutting gas imports to the EU by around 14 billion cubic metres. ... And for the first time ...
Vitus Bering (1681–1741), Danish-born Russian explorer, the first European to reach Alaska. Charles E. Bunnell (1878–1956), territorial federal judge, first president of the University of Alaska. John B. "Jack" Coghill (1925–2019), merchant from Nenana. Held territorial or state elected offices spanning a period of over 40 years ...
Mongolia won't fund the Siberia-2 pipeline for the next four years, Radio Free Europe reports. The natural gas pipeline is an ambitious project to deepen trade between Russia and China.