Subsea Pipeline

Japanese: 海底パイプライン - かいていぱいぷらいん
Subsea Pipeline

...After World War II, gas pipelines began to be built, existing pipelines were reorganized, and various large-scale projects were realized. Large-scale pipelines were also built in other parts of the world, such as Europe, the Middle East, and South America. In the 1950s, a 30m-deep undersea pipeline was built in Venezuela, and with the development of continental shelf oil fields, the technology for laying undersea pipelines improved, and undersea pipelines were built in various places. In Japan, small-scale pipelines connecting ports, petrochemical complexes, and power plants began to be built around 1955, and in 1962, the full-scale Tokyo Pipeline (length 304 km, diameter 305 mm) was completed to carry natural gas from Niigata to Tokyo, and short-distance, large-diameter undersea pipelines were built at coastal petrochemical complexes. ...

*Some of the terms used in reference to "submarine pipelines" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…第2次大戦後には,ガスパイプラインが作られるようになり,既設のパイプラインの再編成や種々の大型プロジェクトが実現され,さらにアメリカ以外のヨーロッパ,中近東,南アメリカなどの世界各地に大規模なものが作られるようになった。50年代にベネズエラで水深30mの海底パイプラインが建設され,大陸棚油田の開発とともに海底敷設の技術も進歩し,各地に海底パイプラインが作られている。 日本でのパイプラインは,1955年ころから港湾,コンビナート,発電所を結ぶ小規模なものが作られはじめ,62年には新潟の天然ガスを東京に運ぶ本格的な東京パイプライン(延長304km,口径305mm)が完成し,臨海石油コンビナートには短距離大口径の海底パイプラインが作られている。…

※「海底パイプライン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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