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Sohio/BP Trans Alaska Pipeline Finance Inc. - Various Denominations Bond - Gener For Sale
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Sohio/BP Trans Alaska Pipeline Finance Inc. - Various Denominations Bond - Gener:
$35.00
Oil Bond. Various Denominations. Female figure with mountains in background. Important 'Alaska Pipeline' printed by American Bank Note Co. Rare! Great! Please specify color. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) is an oil transportation system spanning Alaska, including the trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 11 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems. It is commonly called the Alaska pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline, or Alyeska pipeline, (or the pipeline as referred to in Alaska), but those terms technically apply only to the 800 miles (1,287km) of the pipeline with the diameter of 48 inches (1.22m) that conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska. The crude oil pipeline is privately owned by the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. The pipeline was built between 1975 and 1977, after the 1973 oil crisis caused a sharp rise in oil prices in the United States. This rise made exploration of the Prudhoe Bay oil field economically feasible. Environmental, legal, and political debates followed the discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay in 1968, and the pipeline was built only after the oil crisis provoked the passage of legislation designed to remove legal challenges to the project. In building the pipeline, engineers faced a wide range of difficulties, stemming mainly from the extreme cold and the difficult, isolated terrain. The construction of the pipeline was one of the first large-scale projects to deal with problems caused by permafrost, and special construction techniques had to be developed to cope with the frozen ground. The project attracted tens of thousands of workers to Alaska, causing a boomtown atmosphere in Valdez, Fairbanks, and Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.
Sohio/BP Trans Alaska Pipeline Finance Inc. - Various Denominations Bond - Gener $34.00
1975 Press Photo Workers of Sohio/BP Trans Alaska Pipeline Capital Inc. $15.99
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