Construction Begins on the Alaska Pipeline

Season 18

Construction of the Alaska Pipeline began on March 27, 1975.

Construction of the Alaska Pipeline began on March 27, 1975. Over the next three years, workers would battle brutal Arctic weather to construct an eight hundred mile pipeline that traversed three mountain ranges, thirty-four rivers, and eight hundred streams.

AIR DATE 5/15/06

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Alaska Pipeline: Atigun Pass

Alaska Pipeline: Thompson Pass

Faulty Welds on the Pipeline

The Scale and Cost of the Alaska Pipeline

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Construction Begins on the Alaska Pipeline

Building a Supply Road for the Pipeline

The Alaska Pipeline's Permafrost Challenge

Moving the Oil by Pipeline

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