Alaska Pipeline

Japanese: アラスカ・パイプライン

An oil pipeline stretching 1,300 km from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic coast of Alaska through Fairbanks to the ice-free port of Valdez near Anchorage. The United States built this long-distance pipeline in hopes of developing new oil fields, especially Alaska's North Slope crude oil, due to a decline in crude oil production from existing domestic oil fields. However, environmental damage caused by the pipeline became a major problem, so after many efforts, such as laying the pipeline 1-2 meters above ground, it was fully opened in 1977. It has a maximum daily transport capacity of 2 million barrels, and the total construction cost was 7.7 billion dollars.

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Japanese:

アラスカ北極海岸のプルドー湾からフェアバンクスを経由してアンカレジ近くの不凍港バルデスまでの全長 1300kmに達する送油管。アメリカは従来の国内油田の原油生産の低下から新規油田開発，特にアラスカのノーススロープ原油に期待をかけて長距離パイプラインを建設した。しかし設置による環境破壊が大きな問題となり，地上1～2mに敷設するなどの工夫を重ねて 1977年全面開通。1日の最大輸送能力 200万バーレル，建設費総額 77億ドル。

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