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Take Ormen Lange, the name of the deep-sea field 75 miles (120 km) from Nyhamna. Hover over the sea above the enormous gas reservoir and you won't see a rig. Instead, the company overcame under-water peaks, subzero temperatures and powerful currents to build extraction installations directly on the seabed half a mile (1 km) below the surface. In a couple of hours extracted gas reaches the Nyhamna plant, where it's processed and sent to the U.K. via the world's longest underwater pipeline (it's a trip that can take as little as two days...
...want tranquillity, there's no better place than standing on the cliff-top green on the par-three 13th hole of the Cliffs at Glassy and staring out for a hundred miles. Woods has a similar mountaintop meadow in which to carve his vision. At 4,000 ft., this nearly mile-high club will be built for walking, emphasizing the wellness mantra that Cliffs Communities founder Jim Anthony says defines the communities there. The properties border the Pisgah National Forest and other protected areas that promise a lifetime of trails and wilderness for the outdoorsy...
...more primitive cathodic protection a half-century ago. These older pipelines need to be checked for corrosion on a regular basis. And compliance doesn't come cheap. Schutt says installing cathodic protection on a new pipeline with a fresh protective outer coating may require an anode installation every 20 miles, at a cost of about $1,000 a mile. However, an older pipeline whose coating has worn away might require a more drastic approach--a continuous anode running parallel to the pipeline, which could cost as much as $75,000 a mile. Pipeline companies may not be happy with repair...
They pour out of the Shwedagon, an immense golden pagoda that is Burma's most revered Buddhist monument, two miles north of downtown Rangoon. The monks form an unbroken, mile-long column--barefoot, chanting their haunting mantras, clutching pictures of the Buddha, their robes drenched with the late-monsoon rains. They walk briskly, stopping briefly to pray when they reach Sule Pagoda. Then they're off again, coursing through the city streets in a solid stream of red and orange, like blood vessels giving life to an oxygen-starved body. Their effect on Rangoon's residents is electrifying. At first...
...male graduate student was robbed at gunpoint half a mile east of Harvard Yard early Saturday morning, said Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) spokesman Steven G. Catalano in a community advisory issued later the same...