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...cost that could exceed $43 billion, the 4,800-mile Alaska-Canada natural gas pipeline will be the most expensive privately financed construction project in history, surpassing by far the $9 billion spent on the 789-mile Alaskan oil pipeline during the 1970s. Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill already approved by the Senate that could make the project the most controversial as well...
...oceangoing tug Cavalier and his crew of seven are part of a convoy of tugs and barges making the hazardous trip from the Pacific Northwest to the oilfields around Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. Once a year, for up to six weeks, the Arctic ice pack crumbles away from the Alaskan coast, giving the oil companies their only chance to transport equipment too large to be carried by airplane or truck from Anchorage, more than 600 miles to the south. In 1975, when the entire fleet was trapped in the ice, the scheduled opening of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline...
...folding and overlapping that occur when mountain ranges are forced upward through sedimentary rock. Some oilmen estimate that such formations in the Western Overthrust states could hold as much as 13 billion bbl. of crude, or more than two-thirds of the amount that might be contained in the Alaskan North Slope...
...cheechakos" of 1898 invaded Alaska for the gold and other wealth that were abundant; any later cheechakos were looked upon as claim jumpers and treated as such. The Zobels and other newcomers who arrived after the passage of the great Alaskan oil-revenues rebate are not asking for the world. They just want their 10%, like all the other cheechakos who came before them...
...perhaps 5 ft. in diameter. Some 40 large compressors will be required to pump the gas from the wellheads to a terminal in Waidhaus, West Germany. Says Heinz Durr, chairman of AEG-Telefunken, the big West German firm that may supply the compressors: "Even the American experience with the Alaskan pipeline, which is only one-quarter as long, is nothing compared with what we face here...