Why is it going to take 10 years for us to get oil out of the alaska pipeline?

That is a good question. If I had to guess, I would think planning would be a large part of the time. It would be important to try and minimize the impact to the natural environment. Then there would be surveys, more planning, company bids on construction, choosing the builders, building, setting in place onsite employees, test runs, actual drilling, roads would need to be built for trucks, etc. It will be a very complicated venture that will not be hitch free.





This is a description of the Alaskan Pipeline Project from the seventies:


';It took approximately 70,000 workers to complete the work between 1968, when the initial planning work got started, and the end of the project in '77. According to Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, which was created to oversee the project, there were 28,072 workers at the project's peak in 1975. Many of these people lived in one of the 29 temporary construction camps. They flew in and out of 14 temporary airfields. 515 federal and 832 state permits were needed along the way. And 330 archaelogical site surveys were conducted before the building even got started. It was a massive project that provided a great many jobs to Alaskans as well as thousands of non-Alaskans.';


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http://www.alyeska-pipe.com/pipelinefact鈥?/a>Why is it going to take 10 years for us to get oil out of the alaska pipeline?
Good question. I'd like to know myself. There's been no damage to the environment with the pipeline. In fact, what I hear on the news was the Elk like to huddle up to it for warmth.





This is also interesting:





Then there鈥檚 the oil nobody is talking about. The Bakken fields beneath North Dakota, Montana, and Canada hold an estimated 400 billion barrels of oil. In comparison, Saudi Arabia鈥檚 biggest field, Gahawar, has an estimated 55 billion barrels, while ANWR has an estimated 10.4 billion barrels.Why is it going to take 10 years for us to get oil out of the alaska pipeline?
We have been drilling and pumping oil up here in Alaska since 1977. The wildlife are just fine with the pipeline. We simply do not have enough oil to satisfy the needs and wants of the USA. Gas today was $4.16 and diesel was $5.09.