Pipeline
A coal mine, where the coal is extracted and pulverized and mixed with water to form a slurry, which is then transported through a pipeline for 273 miles to the Mojave Generating Station, a power plant in Laughlin, Nevada. The 18-inch diameter pipe is currently the longest coal-slurry pipeline in...
A major natural gas gathering station in eastern Texas, where gas from the region's gas fields is collected, processed, chilled, compressed, and routed out to customers and other processing stations through the network of 145,000 miles of gas pipline in the state of Texas, and to the larger lines...
The historic Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, a pipeline from a reservoir in the Sierras that carries much of San Francisco's water supply, plunges into the Bay briefly next to the old Dumbarton Cut-off railroad bridge. It emerges in an octagonal structure on the end of a pier, and continues towards the city...
A Canadian crude oil pipeline that brings oil 1,775 miles from Edmonton, Alberta. 13 pumping stations along its course move 8.3 million gallons a day of crude through this pipeline, the longest crude oil line in the world (though the Trans-Siberian pipeline will eventually be 2,319 miles long).
A natural gas pipeline that runs from the Canadian border (at Waddington, NY) to South Commack, on Long Island, supplying over 3 million homes, as well as industries and power stations, in six northeastern states with gas from western Canada. The company that hurriedly built the line in 1991 has...
Two of the three aqueducts that supply water to Southern California cross at this point in the Antelope Valley. Water in the Los Angeles Aqueduct which, for much of its course from Owens Valley flows in conduits buried underground, passes over the California Aqueduct's water, which flows from the...