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Write a very short note Trans – Alaskan pipeline system.


Trans- Alaskan pipeline system runs between Texas to New Jersey in North America. TAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems. It is made into 800 miles (1,287 km) of the pipeline with the diameter of 48 inches (122 cm) that conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay, to Valdez, Alaska.

The pipeline was built between 1974 and 1977 after the 1973 oil crisis caused a sharp rise in oil prices in the United States.


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