| Category |
Tranport System One |
Tranport System Two |
Tranport System Three |
Tranport System Four |
Tranport System Five |
Tranport System Six |
| Project: |
Trans-Alaska Pipeline |
California Aqueduct |
Vize-Constantinople Aqueduct |
Black Mesa Coal Pipeline |
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline |
West-East Gas Pipeline Project |
| Location: |
Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, Alaska (see map) |
Sacramento River delta to Southern California farmlands and the city of Los Angeles |
Thrace (present-day Turkey) |
Navaho reservation in Black Mesa, Arizona to the Mohave Power Plant in Laughlin, Nevada |
Western Asia, from Caspian Sea to Mediterranean Sea |
From China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Shaanxi Province to Shanghai |
| Commodity: |
Crude Oil |
Water |
Water |
Coal Slurry |
Crude Oil |
Natural Gas |
| Length: |
800 miles |
444 miles |
150 miles |
273 miles |
1100 miles |
2500 miles |
| Construction Dates: |
1974-1977 |
1960-1973 |
345-373 |
1969-1970 |
2003-2005 |
2002-2004 |
| Fast Facts: |
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- Largest water-conveyance system in the world
- System includes 20 pumping stations, 130 hydroelectric dams, 100 dams and flow control structures
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- Longest single water supply line in the ancient world
- Built by hand over nearly 30 years
- Delivered water to the metropolis of Byzantium. later called Constantinople (present-day Istanbul)
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- Coal is mixed with water to form a slurry for transport
- The only long-distance coal slurry pipeline in the U.S.
- Abrasive mixture is hard to manage through a pipeline
- Transported about five million tons of coal each year
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- Second longest oil pipeline in the world
- Predicted to reduce by 350 the number of oil tankers passing through the narrow, congested Bosphorus strait
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- First Chinese use of advanced drilling and pipeline management technologies
- Traverses three mountains and 37 rivers
- Designers mapped the route using satellite remote sensing technology
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| Status/Future Plans: |
- Delivered over 2 million barrels/day at its peak in 1988
- Transported an average of 890,000 barrels/day in 2005
- Amount of oil left in North Slope is unknown
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- Supplies millions of acre-feet of water to southern California annually
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- In use for at least three centuries
- Archeologists are excavating and studying the aqueduct
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- Closed due to pollution violations by its sole client
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- Began transporting about 150,000 barrels per day in June 2005
- Expected to increase to 1 million barrels/day by 2009
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- Sold 1.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2004, its first year of operation
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