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Pipelines
 Websites presented in alphabetical order The Alaska Pipeline 
 Companion to an April 2006 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience documentary about the impact on the "culture and society in Alaska as well as the environment" of the pipeline that carries gas from Prudhoe Bay in the Arctic Circle to Valdez on Alaska's south coast. Features a timeline, map, details about significant events, and an interactive pipeline safety activity. Also includes a transcript, a bibliography, teacher's guide, and links to related sites. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pipeline/ Topics: Oil & Gas Last updated Aug 14, 2006 Alyeska Pipeline
The Alyeska Pipeline Service Company is the operator of "the 800-mile-long Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS)... one of the largest pipeline systems in the world. It stretches from Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope, ... to Valdez." Features facts about this gas pipeline, material about safety and environmental concerns (such as oil spill prevention and response), pipeline reconfiguration, and reports and news (such as about BP's 2006 closure of its Prudhoe Bay oilfield). http://www.alyeska-pipe.com Topics: Oil & Gas Last updated Aug 14, 2006 Archive Listing of Hurricane Impacts on the U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Markets
This site has Daily reports from August 29, 2005, through December 2005. Includes data on and news about petroleum, ports and pipelines, and natural gas, with links to background information and related reports on oil in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. From the Energy Information Administration (EIA), an independent statistical agency within the Department of Energy (DOE). http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/special/archive.html Topics: Hurricane Katrina, Industries, Oil & Gas, Weather Last updated Apr 17, 2006 Cave Diving
While primarily about scuba diving in underwater caverns or caves, this site also has information about all types of "overhead environment diving include wreck penetration, ice diving and some types of commercial diving, such as pipeline inspection." There is a FAQ, information about how and where to dive, and links. http://www.cavediving.com/ Topics: Oil & Gas, Outdoor Recreation Last updated Jan 13, 2002 The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project
Information about the project to "develop the oil fields at Doba in southern Chad (at a cost of US$1.5 billion) and construct a 1,070 km pipeline to offshore oil-loading facilities on Cameroon's Atlantic coast (US$2.2 billion)." Provides background information, documents, photos, and monitoring reports for the project, which is sponsored by ExxonMobil, Petronas, and ChevronTexaco. Also includes a FAQ addressing human rights and environmental and social concerns. From the World Bank Group. http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ccproj/ Topics: Oil & Gas, Photograph Collections: Regional, Regions of the World, Regions of the World Last updated Feb 25, 2004 Extreme Oil
Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series that "looks at how the oil industry must now go to extremes to find new sources of the asset that drives the world's economy and fuels so many aspects of our lives." Features sections on oil regions, the history of oil production and use, and the science behind oil exploration, production, transportation, and refining. Also includes lesson plans and Web links. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/ Topics: Industries, Lesson Plans, Oil & Gas Last updated Apr 28, 2005 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
The NTSB has investigated significant aviation, highway, railroad, marine, and pipeline accidents since 1967. They determine probable causes and recommend future safety measures. Each of these modes of transportation has its own page for easy searching. This site offers the text of many preliminary and final reports. News and Events shows the major investigations underway right now. Searchable. http://www.ntsb.gov/ Topics: Oil & Gas, Transportation Last updated May 15, 2001 World Oil Transit Chokepoints
Profiles of regions where oil "tankers encounter several geographic 'chokepoints,' or narrow channels," and which are "critically important to world oil trade because so much oil passes through them, yet they are narrow and theoretically could be blocked -- at least temporarily." Discusses areas such as the Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Malacca, Bab el-Mandab, Panama Canal, Suez Canal and the Sumed Pipeline, and Bosporus and the Turkish Straits. From the U.S. Department of Energy. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/World_Oil_Transit_Chokepoints/Background.html Topics: Oil & Gas Last updated Nov 8, 2005 |
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