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Long oil pipeline

Long oil pipelines are the most cost efficient way to carry and transport large quantities of natural gas, or oil over many miles of land. It is also possible to build these long oil pipelines under the ocean waves, but the cost to do so is very high, and does challenge the most technically minded engineers. The sea can be used to transport oil, but it is accomplished through the use of large tankers several stories high.

The materials that are used to build long oil pipelines typically consist of steel or plastic tubing, with varying widths that range from 30 centimeters to 120 centimeters, which translates to a size range of 12 inches to 47 inches in width. These long oil pipelines can be placed anywhere, but are typically built above ground. When the route of long oil pipelines encounter an urban area, they are then buried beneath the ground at a depth of 3 foot, until they have passed the obstacle in the long oil pipelines path.

Throughout the route that long oil pipelines follow, there are pump stations installed for the purpose of allowing the oil to progress toward its end. These pumps create enough movement within the long oil pipelines to keep the oil moving at an aggressive 1 to 6 meters per second.

There is the capability for multiple long oil pipelines to carry two totally different substances at the same time. Some mixing might occur during the transit along the long oil pipelines but this interface material is removed at the receiving station at the end of the long oil pipelines.

There are Government regulations in place in the United States and Canada that require long oil pipelines to be protected from any type of corrosion. All long oil pipelines are protected with a painted interior coating to prevent the corrosion from occurring, as well as electrically charging the metal with a static protection process. If this process is done incorrectly, it will cause the metal inside of the long oil pipelines to become brittle.

There are dangers involved with transporting the oil inside long oil pipelines. Since this material is flammable and sometimes explosive, there are bound to be accidents, and they have occurred. Some of the accident that have occurred along long oil pipelines were caused by sparks from moving trains, while others were caused by vandalism. The scavenging of gasoline is a recurrent problem along long oil pipelines. Some of the explosions were so massive that it was not possible to determine how many people perished.

Long oil pipelines have been subjected to sabotage and even terrorist attacks because in war, a standard technique is to damage the long oil pipelines to keep the enemy from being able to use the fuel in their war effort.

The long oil pipelines are routinely cleaned internally by devices called pigs, which is a shorten form of a pipeline inspection gauge. The pig is inserted into the long oil pipelines and powered by the pressure of the fluid inside to move it along the long oil pipelines. This will remove any wax build-up in the tube that is a byproduct of gasoline. The pig devices can be used to take readings on the interior surface of the long oil pipelines, and serve to inspect the interior walls of the long oil pipelines.