Trans-Alaska Pipeline - How Oil is Piped Across the Entire State of Alaska
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- čas přidán 22. 03. 2021
- The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was built to provide a means to ship oil from where it is drilled in the North Slope of Alaska, to the closest port free of pack ice, over 600 miles away in Valdez.
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I had a buddy that his father worked on the pipe line . He was a crane operator he set pipe. He left home for two years and came home and payed off his home and bought him and his wife two brand new cars with cash money. His name was James crow dead now but lived in Benton harbor Michigan. His oldest son died on the north pier in st Joseph Michigan. Drown in lake Michigan. I new his brother's Jeff and Chris.
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Fascinating information. It's amazing how huge this is and how adaptable the engineers had to be to the different terrains, and weather conditions. Well done, now get warm!
Why does he have so few subscribers. This is brilliant stuff.
Because he's trying to do it honestly without sub sharing or in some cases buy subscribers... but he's doing alright 👍. I've been hovering around 600 subscribers for a while.. it's not easy 😕
I agree 😊 I love all of this info so much
4,160 subscribers as of early-July 2021!
Because he is saying "get lost" at the End of video 😂
Thanks, Mason. Stay well.
Thanks, Mason.
I remember young men from up here in Northern Wisconsin flocking to Alaska to work on that pipeline. Often leaving together to travel in groups.
Even long after it was completed there was a demand for workers on the feed lines and support teams well into the 80s.
I remember my Father in law making a common joke whenever a person left our small farming community even for a short vacation.
Saying that "They must have gone North to work the pipeline".
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing that.
Thank you for sharing!:-) 🖖
i remember the protests at the time. Mr. Funk my high school librarian walked the pipeline route the summer of '74. "It was the last chance to see it unspoiled."
Such was the World when i were 12!:-) 🖖
Thats a long walk. Thanks for sharing!
@@MasonObscura Indeed. Mr Funk was an equally admirable and odd man. On his return from a summer in India he was noted getting off the plane wearing Hindu garb carrying a sitar!:-)
The pipeline grows 5 miles during the summer. That is fascinating. Thanks for sharing
My father got picked work on that pipeline back in the 80’s. I am glad he got to do something so cool.
Thought this would be a video from someone with millions of subscribers and views, boy was I wrong
Maybe someday. Thanks!
Great info on how its built "free floating" something i didnt know and glad i learned it here. Keep up the good work Mason and have an excellent day!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great information. Thanks so much!!!
And, thank you so very much Mason. You taught this ol' dog new things! It's what keeps me going!:-) 🙏🙃🖖
Love your content. Learn new stuff every video. Thank you
Sounds damn safe to me! Thanks for the enlightenment!
My brother was there in the 70’s with the 82nd airborne div. for security do to violent protesters. Almost 50 years no real problems pretty great American ingenuity! Lol people shooting it!🤪
No it’s not funny! That’s why my brother was there to shoot the ones if they shot at the pipe line! 🤔🤦🏻♂️ OMG…
Thank you for a very interesting and informative presentation. I remember my dad discussing taking a job in Alaska building the pipeline. Apparently they paid very generously in the ‘70s. I’m sure my dad saw it as a great adventure. My mom won the discussion and he stayed on the farm with his wife and 6 kids.
Thanks for sharing!
Interesting....
Thanks man. VERY informative vid.
There are only 4 mainline pump stations still in operation. Only about half the pipeline is above ground. I remember when there was 2 million barrels a day of oil,flowing but now they can barely put a half million barrels in it due to declining production. I worked on the pipeline for about 15 years during its operation
Thanks for sharing!
The owners used big red Suburban trucks all along the pipeline for protection and keeping people from messing with it.
When build pipeline they ask people from western canada due build pipeline in winter.banister,majectic,henuset,northern industrial carriers trucking,was so bad they have go back junk yard in edmonton pick up trucks fix up back on road.they have huge shortage heavy equipment,trucks,welding equip,supplies left and right.i got uncle in montreal build pumping station middle nowhere in tundra.he trained lots young pipefitter learn trade at low temp.lots people said was turning point alaska become more upfront due oil.thanks video😊
A future video: "Today we're at the peak of Mount Everest where in 1953 Edmund Hillary became the first person to ever..."
Who knows... might happen!
their only demand was that I sue them.
I want to know the physics behind it. How does it flow for hundreds of miles in freezing weather? How do they keep it liquid?
Crude oil doesn't freeze until about -40 degrees. Even in Alaska that temp is unlikely.
In the video 2wks ago, Russia had 3 missile defense submarines up in the Arctic, doing research and about 200military there.was that the Canadian Arctic or USA??!!
So.... This wasn't what I meant when I typed in "being trans in Alaska" hahah
It’s pronounced “ValdEEz”. Good video
I call it Vals Diseae
The trans-alaskan pipelines pronouns are he and him.
How much oil has this particular pipeline spilled since it began operating?
Not much
They never could build it now to many rules.To much in fighting about money 💰
There’s only one reason for oil pipelines. Mutual Fund managers need to provide a guaranteed annual return of at least eight percent. They can’t do that by purchasing stocks. But they can do that if they finance a pipeline which guarantees an eight percent return in advance. But the pipeline can only guarantee the eight percent return if the oil customers agree to a certain price; for a set number of years. So the current price of crude oil on the open market doesn’t matter. The refineries have to pay the contract price. And they have to buy the agreed upon number of barrels of oil. If demand went down, the refineries would lose money. So demand must never go down. And cars must never get better fuel economy. The pension funds all expect an eight percent return. If sixty mile per gallon cars arrived, the return on a pipeline would go down to two percent, and then old people wouldn’t get their pension checks. That would make them unhappy. So our cars will have to get terrible fuel economy forever.
@Jabster I’m sorry if I hurt your delicate feelings. So I probably shouldn’t mention that hydrogen gas can easily serve as fuel for a car, it’s cheap to make, and it doesn’t pollute. It can also be used to heat our homes. So really, we don’t need much petroleum. But your friends love to make money without doing any work. So we have expensive gasoline, expensive cars, expensive insurance, and smart guys like you who approve of the whole deal. I’m glad that you’re such an enthusiastic sucker.