Royalite Plant under construction, Turner Valley Alberta. Northwestern Utilities Company Limited completes construction of a kilometre natural gas pipeline and kilometres of distribution pipeline from Viking, AB to Edmonton, AB.
Natural gas pipeline, South Side, Edmonton, Alberta. Laying pipe for pipeline between Turner Valley and Calgary, southern Alberta. Portland Montreal Pipe Line completes its kilometre oil pipeline to transport crude oil from the port in South Portland, Maine to refineries in Montreal. Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc. October 27, Construction of Interprovincial Pipe Line. They were also profane, and demanding.
The journalist Ida Tarbell called them tyrants, and plutocrats. Oil Creek, the local waterway, was insufficient on its own to carry the oil and make the teamsters unnecessary. It needed enhancing. Boatmen did this by damming its tributaries, and loading barrels onto flatboats while they waited. The smallest boats held 20 barrels; the largest 1, Twenty-thousand barrels of oil made their way south. Colliding into each other, and the shore, the boats regularly yielded their contents to the water.
Spilled oil soaked the creek, and lined its banks all the way to the Allegheny River. From there, the surviving oil barrels easily made their way, in bigger barges, down to Pittsburgh. They were as busy as the teamsters. Such shops made pyramids of barrels, as tall as a few horses. Coopers came by the scores. There were more coopers making gallon hooped barrels—each with a distinct company logo on the top—than there were roustabouts or oil workers.
When the railroad finally arrived in , barrels were loaded onto flat cars, only to slosh around and leak en route. Beginning in , the oil was dumped into specially made wooden tank cars, consisting of 2,gallon tubs. The modification made shipping easier, but no less dangerous; a severe fire hazard remained. One old oil man, W. Still, there was too much oil. T he first oil pipeline existed only in imagination. When it started pumping crude oil, he proposed a 6-inch pipe, 35 miles long, running downhill to the Ohio River at Parkersburg.
This was in November of It was never built. A year later a man from Erie proposed building a wooden pipeline from Titusville to Oil City. It, too, was never built. A Pennsylvania oilman named J. Hutchinson was the first to actually build one, in It ran over a hill, to a refinery, and worked on the principle of a siphon: as long as the outlet was lower than the inlet, liquid would flow.
Stitching together hundreds of pieces of metal, with nary a leak, seemed impossible. To teamsters, the pipeline promised the termination of their employ. That little tube threatened their entire industry, and they fought it hard. The next summer, Hutchinson tried again, building a 2-mile line. Although it leaked, the combination of pumps and pipes worked well enough that the Humboldt Mining and Refining Company, to which the line ran, proudly claimed success.
The Company can now pump the oil from Oil Creek over the hills through the iron pipes When Samuel Van Syckel proposed sinking his oil money into a 5-mile pipeline, he was ridiculed. His friends discouraged him, pitied him, and called the idea folly. Strangers made him the butt of their jokes. Really, though, it was fastidiousness. The real surprise is that any escaped the common fate of the many.
Ever since the dawn of the space age, a quixotic subculture of physicists, engineers, and science-fiction writers have devoted their lunch hours and weekends to drawing up plans for starships, propelled by the imperative for humans to crawl out of When, in , Van Syckel finished his line, of 2-inch pipe screwed together, from a well to the railroad, it worked. People began to notice. It did the work of teams working 10 hours a day. She said it began a revolution.
Then they attacked it with pickaxes. They tied chains to it, and pulled it apart with horses. Someone telegraphed the governor, asking for help. Van Syckel sent for rifles from New York.
The railroaders got mad, too. Today, there are more than 3,, km of pipelines around the world and much more under construction.
Categories: Industry update. By: Atmos International Date: 17 April Infographic: History of pipelines.
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