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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 ...

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 ...

Carnahan, former police officer, Fairbanks, Alaska There were ... were set up along the pipeline route. The pipeline camps ranged from 250-person sites at the pump stations to the enormous 3,500 ...