ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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18 wheel trucks
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pipelines
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helicopters
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railroads
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Alaska, tankers and pipelines are our primary transportation methods. On the North slope we have a complex system of pipelines that safely move oil from the wellhead, to processing facilities and then into the Trans-Alaska Pipeline system all the way to Valdez.
Detailed explanation-2: -Does the US still get oil from Alaska? Alaska still runs on oil. Alaska’s North Slope has responsibly produced more than 18 billion barrels of oil since the discovery of the Prudhoe Bay oil field.
Detailed explanation-3: -The crude oil that flows down the 800-mile pipeline is picked up by tankers in the port of Valdez. According to state officials, the bulk of the crude is transported to West Coast refineries. A group of oil companies paid for the pipeline to be built in the late 1970s at a cost of $8-billion.