Dianne took this photograph on our way to the Arctic Circle. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (referred to as “the Pipeline” in Alaska) conveys crude oil in a 48” pipeline over a distance of 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska. We learned from museum exhibits and in conversation with Alaskans that the amount of crude oil flowing through the Pipeline today is about one-third of its high of 2,000,000 barrels a day in 1988. If we had traveled another 275 miles north of the Arctic Circle on this road we would have reached Deadhorse and Prudhoe Bay on the Beaufort Sea.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
Dianne took this photograph on our way to the Arctic Circle. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (referred to as “the Pipeline” in Alaska) conveys crude oil in a 48” pipeline over a distance of 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska. We learned from museum exhibits and in conversation with Alaskans that the amount of crude oil flowing through the Pipeline today is about one-third of its high of 2,000,000 barrels a day in 1988. If we had traveled another 275 miles north of the Arctic Circle on this road we would have reached Deadhorse and Prudhoe Bay on the Beaufort Sea.
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