Trans-Arabian Pipeline
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The Trans-Arabian Pipeline, was an oil pipeline from Qaisumah in Saudi Arabia to Sidon in Lebanon. It was an important factor in the global trade of petroleum, as well as in American–Middle Eastern po
The Trans-Arabian Pipeline in 1950
Welding the pipes, 1947
The pipeline in 1982, still buried
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Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline
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The Kirkuk-Mediterranean pipeline was a mixed 10/12-inch twin crude oil pipeline from the landlocked oil fields in Kirkuk, located in the former Ottoman vilayet of Mosul in northern Iraq, through Tran
Trans-Arabian Pipeline
…1990. Tapline was the second long distance oil pipeline built in the Middle East outside of Iran. The Iraq Petroleum Company completed the twin 12-inch Kirkuk-Haifa oil pipeline in 1934 and already laid a 16-inch loop in 1948-1949 and reached a nameplate capacity of 250,000 barrels per day. The Iraq Petroleum Company had to…
IPC assistants welding pipes in the Jezreel Valley next to a telephone mast
An underwater loading line at Haifa, 1938
Haifa under attack, 1940