The Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline), was an oil pipeline from Qaisumah in Saudi Arabia to Sidon in Lebanon, active between 1950–1976. In its heyday, it was an important factor in the global trade of petroleum, as well as in American–Middle Eastern political relations, while locally helping with the economic development of Lebanon. The pipeline was built and operated by the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company, now a fully owned subsidiary of Aramco. It largely ceased functioning in the early 1980s and completely stopped operating in 1990.
Trans-Arabian Pipeline in 1950
Welding the pipes, circa 1947
The pipeline in 1982, still buried
How Tapline road looked for much of its existence
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