Put That in Your Pipe and Move It

We drove to a point just outside Fairbanks to get a look at the famous Alaska Pipeline. The pipeline was designed and constructed to move oil from the North Slope of Alaska to Valdez - the northern most ice-free port in Alaska. Completed in 1977, the system is 800 miles long and has a diameter of 48 inches. The two-year construction project was privately funded for a cost of $8 billion, and over 15 billion barrels of oil have moved through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System in its 33-year history. The visitor's center was closed, but we got the idea.