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...Energy section we describe the planned journey south of the first oil to flow through the Alaskan pipeline, which will go into service this week after the spending of $9 billion and more than three years of construction. The story was written by John S. DeMott, with the help of Reporter-Researcher Gail Perlick. No one knows exactly when the pioneer ribbon of oil will reach the end of its nearly 800-mile trip or, strangely enough, where all of it will go after it gets there. The economic and political implications of the various plans being made to refine...
...eventually drop into half-million-bbl. storage tanks in Valdez to await loading on tankers. The trip will take a month, longer if trouble turns up. But if all goes well, an uninterrupted ribbon of oil-9 million bbl. just to fill the pipeline-should stretch across the Alaskan tundra by mid-July. The flow will be stepped up gradually, reaching 600,000 bbl. daily by August, 1.2 million bbl. in October...
Four hundred underpasses and pathways over buried pipe are provided for migrating Alaskan wildlife. Some sectors of the pipe are flexible enough to withstand earthquakes that register 8.5 on the Richter scale-greater than the devastating 1964 Alaska quake that destroyed 30 blocks of downtown Anchorage. The entire system can be shut down in ten minutes if the pipeline breaks. A maximum of 50,000 bbl. can spill; valves at various intervals can be turned to stop the flow...
...Some Alaskans believe the Department of the Interior is land-happy. "We can't turn everything into a park when the survival of the country is at stake," says Hunting Guide Terry Brady of Anchorage. Others resent what they see as outside interference in Alaskan affairs. "We're being made the scapegoat by a lot of people who draw lines on maps," Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens complained. "The people in the Brooklyn tenements and Florida condominiums look about them and see the devastation that development has caused in their area and they're determined...
Possible reserves are more problematic. They represent, as one oil geologist puts it, "guesstimates," based largely on the observation of strata formations that in other areas have proved to encase oil and gas basins. The calculations can be miles off-literally, Alaskan topography intrigued oil geologists, but some thought that the reserves would be found on Alaska's south shore. Instead, the oil is gushing from the North Slope...