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Bookmark or Share- Trans-Alaska Pipeline System - WikipediaThe Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an oil transportation system spanning Alaska, including the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 12 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems.
- Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS)The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) was the world’s largest privately funded construction project when it was built, at a cost of $8 billion. The system includes the 800-mile-long pipeline, which runs from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, and the Valdez Marine Terminal, where oil is loaded onto tankers for shipment to market.
- The pipe that changed Alaska | Geophysical InstituteOn June 20, 1977, oil began flowing from the bowels of the earth at Prudhoe Bay, through Pump Station 1, and into the trans-Alaska pipeline. At the time, an editorial in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner heralded the pipeline as the world's largest private construction project.
- Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) - Alyeska PipelineAt 800 miles long, TAPS is one of the world’s largest pipeline systems, transporting Alaska North Slope crude oil from Pump Station 1 in Prudhoe Bay; then travels across the state’s rugged and beautiful terrain, including traversing three mountain ranges, three major earthquake faults, and hundreds of rivers and streams; and comes to its ...
- TAPS Facts - Alyeska PipelineThe 800-mile Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an engineering marvel that has moved 18 billion barrels of oil since startup in 1977.
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