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Trans-Alaska Pipeline

oil pipeline in Alaska

Ground-level view of an elevated portion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Alaska, U.S.

Large white tanks and pipes form a compressor station on a natural gas pipeline in Texas, with a fence in the foreground and solar panels and grassy hills in the background.

Map showing oil pipelines originating from the Alberta tar sands in Canada, with routes extending south through the United States. The map uses different lines to distinguish existing pipelines, proposed Keystone XL routes (including an abandoned route through the Nebraska Sand Hills), and other proposed or existing pipelines such as Flanagan South, Seaway, and Enbridge Northern Gateway. The Alberta tar sands region is shaded in orange, and the Ogallala aquifer is marked in pink beneath parts of

Central Asia's oil resererves and pipelines.

How the world's first oil pipeline was built

How are high-pressure oil and gas pipelines made?

How the Ormen Lange gas pipeline was engineered

Learn about pipelines inspections by using an inspection device called PIGs

Learn how divers repair the underwater damaged pipelines

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