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unusual facts about The Pipeline



Online service provider

Internet-only service providers like UUNET, The Pipeline, Panix, Netcom, the World, EarthLink, and MindSpring provided no content of their own, concentrating their efforts on making it easy for nontechnical users to install the various software required to "get online" before consumer operating systems came internet-enabled out of the box.


see also

C. Y. O'Connor

The novel The Drowner by Robert Drewe provides a fictionalised account of O'Connor and the building of the pipeline.

Chad–Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project

The original consortium of oil companies involved in the pipeline project were Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell and Elf Aquitaine.

Colsterdale towers

The sighting towers were erected to conduct surveys (the steep-sided valley of Dallowgill was once a proposed reservoir site) and as references for construction of the pipeline over hill and dale toward Harrogate.

Dahinda, Illinois

The pipeline was originally originally owned by the Prairie State Oil Company, later by Sinclair Oil Corporation, and today is owned by BP.

Druzhba pipeline

The Druzhba-Adria Pipeline Integration Project is a proposal to extend the pipeline to pass through Hungary and Croatia to reach the Adriatic Sea at the deep-water port of Omišalj.

Dusit Thani Group

Dusit International also announces its first step in China - Dusit Thani Sanya as well as other projects in the pipeline, including Dusit Thani Abu Dhabi, Dusit Residence West Bay Doha, Dusit Thani Dilmunia Bahrain, and Dusit Thani Jeddah.

Frederick Andresen

Born in El Paso, Texas, he was raised in the West Texas desert at a compressor station on the pipeline that pumped gas from Texas to Southern California defense factories.

Gazela Pipeline

The pipeline will divert from the existing pipelines only in the MladoticeChomutov section.

Hussein Salem

In 2007, he sold most of his shares in the East Mediterranean Gas Company, a year before the pipeline actually pumped any gas.

MEGAL pipeline

The MEGAL pipeline crosses the Trans Europa Naturgas Pipeline and the Remich pipeline at Mittelbrunn, the SETG (pipeline from the German-Dutch border) at Gernsheim, and the pipeline going to the Ruhr Industrial Area at Rimpar.

Oil reserves in Ghana

The pipeline was to carry refined products from Tema to Akosombo Port, where they will be transported across Lake Volta to northern regions.

PetroDar

The pipeline connects the oil fields of the Melut Basin with the refinery and export terminal located at Port Sudan on the Red Sea.

South Stream

On 14 November 2009, followed the talks between Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the agreement on the terms of which a part of the pipeline will run through Slovenia to Northern Italy was signed by Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Slovenian Economy Minister Matej Lahovnik in Moscow.

Technical director

Typically, a TD is a mix of an artist and a programmer, responsible for the more technical aspects of film production, such as programming shaders, developing character rigs and animation setups, performing complex simulation tasks and setting up the pipeline how the data is passed from one stage in the film production to the next.

Thomas Barrett

Thomas J. Barrett, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation and Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA); retired Vice Admiral USCG

Tom Barrett

Thomas J. Barrett, current Deputy Secretary of Transportation and Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline

The final destination of the pipeline will be the Indian town of Fazilka, near the border between Pakistan and India.

Washington Aqueduct

The Union Arch Bridge carries the pipeline and MacArthur Boulevard over Cabin John Creek and the Cabin John Parkway near the community of Cabin John, Maryland.