Operation Pluto
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Operation Pluto was an operation by British engineers, oil companies and the British Armed Forces to build submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel to support Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy during the Second World War.
The pumping station at Sandown, originally disguised as Brown's Ice Cream
A Conundrum is towed across the English Channel laying out pipe to Cherbourg
Captain J. F. Hutchings, commander of Operation Pluto
A section of Hais pipe with the layers successively stripped away
Pipeline
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A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption. The latest data from 2014 gives a total of slightly less than 2,175,000 miles (3,500,000 km) of pipeline in 120 countries around the world. The United States had 65%, Russia had 8%, and Canada had 3%, thus 76% of all pipeline were in these three countries. The main attribute to pollution from pipelines is caused by corrosion and leakage
HDPE pipelines on a mine site in Australia
A "Pig" launcher/receiver, on the natural gas pipeline in Switzerland
An elevated section of the Alaska Pipeline
Gas pipe in the dry region of Antofagasta, Chile