View west to port Valdez, the glacial fiord that will be the Trans-Alaska pipeline ... the 100,000 girth welds near Pump Station 3. The final price tag for the pipeline is over $8 billion ...

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To overcome this, pumping stations are positioned throughout the length of the pipeline to adjust the pressure, pump the product ... Pumping Stations at Work: Trans-Alaska Pipeline Traveling ...

In 30 years of operation the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System has had its share of mishaps. A pump station blew up in 1977 ... Section 17, clause d(2) of that law allowed the U.S. Secretary of ...

An employee on a pump station heard what was described as a mechanical bang early Tuesday morning, an official told CBS News.