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Great Alaska Pipeline, The by Stan Cohen Soft cover
Great Alaska Pipeline, The by Stan Cohen
The Great Alaska Pipeline
Stan Cohen
Soft Over
137 Pages
Copyright 1st Printing April 1988
10th Printing March 2007
Contents
1. From oil seeps to Prudhoe Bay: A short history
of oil and gas in Alaska 1
2. How to get the crude from Prudhoe Bay to
the Lower 48 11
3. On again, off agian. Will the pipeline be built? . . 15
Building the Pipeline Haul Road 21
Construction Camps 24
4. "We didn't know it couldn't be done."
The construction process 33
TheYukon River Bridge 34
Archaeological Findings 39
Transportation Facilities 40
Construction Techniques 44
River Crossings 61
Welding 68
Antigun Pass 74
Thompson Pass 76
Keystone Canyon 80
Communications 85
Animals 87
People 88
5. Pump Stations 89
6. Pipeline Terminal at Valdez 111
7. The Pipeline Monument 125
8. End of Project 128
So it's not surprising that Alaska is also the site of some of the most ambitious construction projects in history. The Alaska Highway, the largest such undertaking of World War II except for the Atomic Bomb, connected the region to the rest of the nation. The Alaska Railroad, built in the late 1910s and early 1920s, proved that imagination and engineering savvy could overcome a hostile climate. These enterprisesalong with the Canol Pipeline, which funneled oil in the 1940s from the remote Canadian Northwest Territories to Whitehorse in the Yukonmade it logistically possible, and gave engineers the confidence to complete the largest private construction project in the worldthe trans Alaska pipeline. Stretching 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez through some of the fiercest terrain on the planet, the pipeline is a masterpiece of human perseverance. Eight billion dollars and four years of labor on the part of more than 70,000 peoplefrom pipefitters, welders and equipment operators in the field to the executives in the officewere required to produce this massive achievement.
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