Pipeline - Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, 1989

Описание: This is a VHS recorded segment of the Discovery Channel's "Alaska Turns 30" TV programming in 1989. The program shown, "Pipeline", also had a home release, the back of the case reads:

In 1968, oil was discovered in commercial quantities at Prudhoe Bay, on Alaska's North Slope. Within the next six years a few thousand men and women participated in the design of, and preparations for construction of a pipeline to carry the oil to market. There were numerous legal, environmental and engineering obstacles to overcome.

On April 27, 1974, actual construction began of the trans Alaska pipeline to carry the oil from the shores of the Arctic Ocean on Alaska's North Slope, to Valdez in South: central Alaska, a distance of 800 miles In the three years of construction sore 70,000 Twentieth-Century pioneers worked together to lay the 46 inch pipe over mountains across tundra, through forestland, over major rivers and over of under some 800 streams. they worked in perhaps the most severe climatic conditions anywhere — temperatures from minus 80 to plus 100 degrees, and winds, rain, snow and Sleet They sometimes encountered wild animals. and endured swarms of stinging and biting insects. Innovations in design and construction were the rule rather than the exception it was the biggest privately-financed job ever. The final connection completing the pipeline was finished by two veteran pipeline welders on May 31, 1977, and the first oil entered the line June 20 of that year, on schedule.

The film, "Pipeline." documents the most important events of this project, beginning with the earliest route surveys, continuing through the excitement of the actual construction, and concluding with the beginning of pipeline operation

This film was two years in the making. It portrays the scope and scale of history's biggest private construction job, and the determination and courage of the people who got the job done, on time."