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10 unusual facts about Pipeline transport


Flow measurement

This method is widely used to measure flow rate in the transmission of gas through pipelines, and has been used since Roman Empire times.The coefficient of discharge of Venturi meter ranges from 0.93 to 0.97.

J. Ross Mackay

His 40 plus years of study has enabled the building of pipeline operations and petroleum explorations in areas of frozen ground.

James Aubrey Simmons

In parliament, Simmons sponsored a bill for the creation of an Alaska-Yukon pipeline.

Kel Seliger

House Bill 2161 ensures that effective pipeline safety standards are in place for all construction work around oil and gas pipelines.

Kenya Pipeline Company

Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is a state corporation that has the responsibility of transporting, storing and delivering petroleum products to the consumers of Kenya by its pipeline system and oil depot network.

Paul Spence

The characters and situations depicted in FUBAR were inspired by encounters Dave and Paul experienced while working as labourers on a pipeline crew in Northern British Columbia.

Pipe Line Contractors Association

The Pipe Line Contractors Association (PICA) is a petroleum industry trade group created in 1948 to handle labor relations in the pipeline construction industry.

Spartia temple

The flask had been found several years before its value was recognized when a natural gas pipeline was built near the hill of Spartia by the Volos-Velestinos-Larissa highway (on the site of the ancient Pherae-Pagasses road).

Thomas J. Barrett

The Administrator directs the agency's national program for protecting against risks to life and property inherent in the transportation of hazardous materials in commerce and the transportation of liquid, natural gas, petroleum, and other hazardous liquids by pipeline.

W.W. Clyde Company

The company began as a business focused on building roads, and now specializes in a variety of construction services, including building bridges and other structures, highways, pipelines, mining and mine reclamation, site development, and aggregate processing.


Coal-water slurry fuel

CWS produced by milling the sludge and/or regular coal near the coal mine near Belovo (Siberia, Russia) was transported through the pipeline to Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia), a distance of 262 km.

Economy of Bălți

The drinking water is supplied into the pipes from a network of local artesian wells (which are insufficient) and from the river Nistru (Dnister) by a 60 km long pipeline connecting Bălți to Soroca (which is not economically feasible).

Fluxys

In 2004, it employed around 850 people and its infrastructure comprised about 3,700 km of pipelines and a terminal in Zeebrugge, Belgium.

Melut Basin

The export pipeline is also known as the PetroDar Pipeline after the name of the consortium which operates it.