Timeline of pipeline transport
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This is a timeline of pipeline transport.
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| Time period | Development summary |
|---|---|
| Ancient times | Bamboo pipes are used in China. Also, pipes made of clay or stone are widely used in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Rome.[1] |
| 18th Century | Cast-iron pipes are introduced commercially, as cast iron becomes relatively cheap.[2] This leads to a significant improvement in pipeline technology.[3] |
| 19th Century | The Steel pipe, a major milestone, is introduced, greatly increasing the strength of pipes of all sizes. The development of high-strength steel pipes makes possible the transport of natural gas and oil over long distances.[3] Cast-iron pipes come into common use in the 1840s.[2] The first natural-gas and petroleum pipelines in the United States are built.[2] In the 1870s, pipeline technology improves with the introduction of subsurface cast-iron pipes.[4] Pneumatic tube networks gained in the late 19th through early 20th centuries for offices that need to transport small, urgent packages over relatively short distances in meters. |
| 20th Century | Steel pipe is introduced early in the century.[2] In the 1920s, the application of welding to join pipes make it possible to construct leakproof, high-pressure, large-diameter pipelines. Since the 1950s, the introduction of ductile iron and large-diameter concrete pressure pipes for water and the use of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe for sewers, prove to be major innovations.[3] From late 1950s to early 1960s, the largest Trans-Siberian trunk pipelines are built.[5] |
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| Year | Event type | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5000 BC | Bamboo pipes are used in China to carry water.[1][2] | China | |
| 4000 BC | The origin of the earliest known pipe in Babylonia is documented as one of the first places to mold clay into pipe (via potter’s wheel). Tees and angle joints are produced and then baked to make drainage pipe.[6] | ||
| 3200 BC–2300 BC | In the Minoan civilization several types of stone and terracotta conduits and pipes are used to transfer water, and drain stormwater and wastewater.[6] | Greece | |
| 3000 BC | The first metal pipes of copper are made in Egypt.[2] | Egypt | |
| 525 BC | A long distance pipeline made out of ox–hides sewn together is laid across the desert to supply water to the Persian forces during the invasion of Egypt by Cambyses II.[1] | ||
| 400 BC | Bamboo pipes are used to transmit natural gas to light Beijing.[3] | China | |
| 1830s | Iron pipes for other uses other than oil transportation already operate in the United States.[7] | United States | |
| 1840s | Cast-iron pipes come into common use, providing resistance to corrosion better than steel pipes, and being therefore frequently used underground.[2] | ||
| 1859 | The first commercial oil well in the United States is drilled by “Colonel” Edwin Drake in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Soon after, the use of pipe for oil transportation starts in the country.[7] | United States | |
| 1860s | Quality control of pipe manufacturing develops as the pipeline business grows. Also, the type of metal for pipes improves from wrought iron to steel.[7] | United States | |
| 1861 | The first crude oil pipeline is constructed of wood in the United States.[1] | United States | |
| 1862–1863 | Pennsylvania oilman J.L. Hutchinson attempts to build a pipeline, running over a hill, to a refinery, and working on the principle of a siphon: as long as the outlet is lower than the inlet, liquid flows. The pipe wouldn't work for not being airtight. Over the next year Hutchinson tries again, building a 2-mile line. Although leaking, the combination of pumps and pipes manage to work well enough to be considered a success.[8] | United States | |
| 1863 | Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev proposes the idea of using a pipeline to transfer oil and products of oil refining.[5] | Russia | |
| 1865 | An early modern oil pipeline is built in Pennsylvania by S. F. Karns to counteract the high transport cost imposed by teamsters who haul oil over a five–mile route for US$3 a barrel.[1] | United States | |
| 1872 | Statistics | 1,200 wells in the Pennsylvania region produce 6 million barrels of oil a year, all of it gathered through pipelines.[8] | United States |
| 1878 | The first pipeline is put into operation in Russia, for carrying oil.[5] | Russia | |
| 1880 | The Cleveland line pipeline is completed by American company Standard Oil, reducing shipping costs by more than half. At this time Standard Oil is building its own pipelines towards its refineries in the United States.[4] | United States | |
| 1882 | American magnate John D. Rockefeller controlls 3,000 miles of pipelines.[4] | United States | |
| 1905 | Crude oil pipelines start carrying oil from the fields in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas to the refineries in the East.[9] | United States | |
| 1906 | The Baku–Batumi fuel line is the first trunk pipeline built in the Russian Empire. At the time, it is the world’s largest system with 882 km length, 204 mm diameter and a capacity of 900 thousand tons per year.[5] | Azerbaijan, Georgia | |
| 1906 | Policy | The Hepburn Act in the United States makes interstate pipelines common carriers that are required to offer their services at equal cost to all shippers.[9] | United States |
| 1912 | "Canadian Western Natural Gas builds a natural gas pipeline from Bow Island, AB to Calgary, AB (275 km.)."[10] | Canada | |
| 1914 | Three trunk pipelines operate in Russia: Maykop – Krasnodar, Kaluzhskaya – Afipskaya and Makhachkala – Groznyi.[5] | Russia | |
| 1917 | The total extent of pipes in Russia equals to 1100 kilometers, with no further extension for over a decade.[5] | Russia | |
| 1920s | Statistics | The total pipeline mileage in the United States grows to over 115,000 miles, driven by the growth of the automobile industry.[9] | United States |
| 1923 | "Northwestern Utilities Company Limited completes construction of a 124 kilometre natural gas pipeline and 129 kilometres of distribution pipeline from Viking, AB to Edmonton, AB."[10] | Canada | |
| 1928 | Construction of large pipeline systems in the USSR is resumed, when the Groznyi – Tuapse pipeline (250 mm in diameter, 618 km long) is put into operation.[5] | Russia | |
| 1936 | The Ishimbay–Ufa pipeline (166 km long, 300 mm in diameter) is put in operation, ensuring a non-stop crude oil supply to the Ufa oil refinery.[5] | Russia | |
| 1954 | Indiana Standard pipeline company Stanolind, becomes the largest liquid pipeline carrier in North America, a position it would hold until the Enbridge expansion.[11] | United States | |
| 1957 | "TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. begins construction on a natural gas pipeline across Canada. Westcoast Transmission Company Ltd. begins transporting natural gas from northeastern British Columbia to the BC/US border. TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.’s Alberta system, known as NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. or NGTL, begins operations."[10] | ||
| 1959? – 1962? | Pipelines are successfully used to transport milk in parts of Switzerland.[1] | Switzerland | |
| 1970 | The Black Mesa pipeline is built in the United States. The 18-inch pipeline transports 4.8 million tons of coal per year from Black Mesa, Arizona, to southern Nevada, over a distance of 273 miles. It is the longest coal-slurry pipeline in the world.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag The United States has 65%, Russia has 8%, and Canada has 3%, giving 75% of all pipelines in three countries.[12] |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Historical Development of the Pipeline as a Mode of Transportation" (PDF). gammathetaupsilon.org. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "pipe". factmonster.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Pipeline technology". britannica.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Zrinski, Tara M. "Pipelines By". philadelphiaencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 "Pipelines History". transneft.ru. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 De Feo, Giovanni; Antoniou, George; Fardin, Hilal Franz; El-Gohary, Fatma; Zheng, Xiao Yun; Reklaityte, Ieva; Butler, David; Yannopoulos, Stavros; Angelakis, Andreas N. "The Historical Development of Sewers Worldwide". doi:10.3390/su6063936. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "The History of Pipelines". pipeline101.org. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Waldman, Jonathan. "How the Oil Pipeline Began". nautil.us. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "The History of Pipelines". pipeline101.org. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "How long has the pipeline industry been around?". aboutpipelines.com. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
- ↑ "The History of Pipelines". pipeline101.org. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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