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    The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an oil transportation system spanning Alaska, including the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 12 pump stations...
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    discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay and the 1977 completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline led to an oil boom. In 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit a reef in Prince...
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    sometimes known), it was built as a supply road to support the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in 1974. It is named after James Dalton, a lifelong Alaskan...
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    important ports in Alaska, a commercial fishing port as well as a freight terminal. Valdez is also the terminus for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. The port...
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    the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) through the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. The Alaska corporation commonly known as Alyeska Pipeline Company...
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  • Alaska gas pipeline is a joint project of TransCanada Corp. and ExxonMobil Corp. to develop a natural gas pipeline under the AGIA, a.k.a. the Alaska Gas...
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  • 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...
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    oil fields, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), which brings oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez on the south-central Alaska coast. Facilities in...
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    city became a supply point for the oil field, as well as for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. With the establishment of the Fairbanks North Star Borough...
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    and Valdez, which includes the terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Incorporated cities in Alaska are categorized as either "general law" (subdivided...
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  • Hilcorp (category Oil pipeline companies)
    ownership of the facilities. The company owns the largest share of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, after purchasing BP's 49% stake in 2019. Hilcorp notably...
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    during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. There was a 3800 ft gravel airstrip, KSAG, used by the pipeline which as since been left unused...
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    The Trans-Alaska Pipeline can transport and pump up to 2.1 million barrels (330,000 m3) of crude oil per day, more than any other crude oil pipeline in...
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    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...
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    Trans-Alaska-Pipeline are often run overhead in order to avoid melting the frozen ground by hot petroleum which would result in sinking the pipeline in...
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    Prince William Sound (category Bodies of water of Chugach Census Area, Alaska)
    the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Other settlements on the sound, which contains numerous small islands, include Cordova and Whittier plus the Alaska native...
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    000 m3/d). The Trans-Alaska Pipeline can pump up to 2.1 million barrels (330,000 m3) of crude oil per day, more than any other crude oil pipeline in the United...
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    Exxon Valdez oil spill (category Trans-Alaska Pipeline System)
    recommendations, including that neither Exxon, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, the State of Alaska, nor the federal government were prepared for a spill...
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  • field, oil is moved through pipelines from about 1000 wells to a pumping station at the head of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline; "flow lines" carry oil from...
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  • Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), a gas pipeline via Greece, Albania and Italy Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), a petroleum pipeline across Alaska,...
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  • 18 June 2010. AP News/Huffington Post (26 May 2010). "Alaska Oil Spill: Trans-Alaska Pipeline Shuts Down 800 Mile Area In North Slope". AP/Huffington...
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    ambulance (a flight of approximately 45 minutes). Alaska portal 2006 Alaskan oil spill Alaska Pipeline Ice Road Truckers "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United...
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    camp was located near Livengood during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Livengood was the last operating location of the antiquated 2600 Hz...
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    southern terminal of the Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline (not connected or related to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System), which provided refined petroleum products...
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  • the Iraq War, recovering from Hurricane Katrina and building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Fluor Corporation's predecessor, Rudolph Fluor & Brother...
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    the development of the Prudhoe Bay, Alaska petroleum reserves and the construction of the Trans Alaska pipeline. The complex partnership called for a...
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    of (2020–2022) the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company which designed, built, operates, and maintains the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. McCown grew up in...
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  • Alaska's North Slope began flowing to market through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, the Permanent Fund was created by an amendment to the Alaska Constitution...
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    failures in the future. Trans-Alaska Pipeline: In 2001, a section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline failed due to SCC. The pipeline is used to transport crude...
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    also to oil tank farms and an oil pipeline distribution center in Cushing, Oklahoma. TransCanada Keystone Pipeline GP Ltd, abbreviated here as Keystone...
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