Introduction
Oil pipelines are the cheapest method of transporting oil where they are available. Where the alternative of sea going veseels is not available, for example when the oil is produced in a land locked country, then the alternatives to pipelines are very much more expensive.
Pipelines have the major disadvantages that they are vunerable to sabotage, they require significant capital cost and time to build, and they are the least flexible option. Where a pipeline crosses a number of countries, the geopolitical problems can be very significant.
Below is a list of oil pipelines, including those in operation, under contruction and planned.
Africa
Asia
- Afghanistan Oil Pipeline (planned)
- Alashankou-Dushanzi Crude Oil Pipeline
- Atyrau-Samara Oil Pipeline
- Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan Pipeline
- Caspian Pipeline Consortium Oil Pipeline
- Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline (planned)
- Kabrai-Dhanbad Cutter Pipeline
- Kazakhstan-China Oil Pipeline
- Kirkuk-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline
- Mumbai-Manmad Pipeline
- Polar Region - Purpe Oil Pipeline
- Purpe – Samotlor Pipeline Project
- Samsun-Ceyhan Pipeline (planned)
- Sino-Burma pipelines
- South-North Pipeline Korea
- Tikhoretsk - Tuapse-2 Oil Pipeline
- Trans Korea Pipeline
- Trans-Caspian Oil Pipeline - planned
- Vankor - Purpe Pipeline
- Zapolyarye-Purpe Oil Pipeline
Europe
- AMBO Oil pipeline (Planned)
- Baltic Pipeline System 1
- Baltic Pipeline System 2
- Brent System
- Burgas - Alexandroupolis Pipeline Project
- CLH Pipelines - Spain
- Constanta Trieste Oil pipeline
- Druzhba Pipeline Russia-Europe
- Forties Pipeline System
- Grozny-Tuapse pipeline
- Ninian pipeline
- Nord-West Oelleitung Pipeline, Germany
- Odessa-Brody-Plock Oil pipeline
- Pan-European Pipeline
- Samsun Ceyhan Oil Pipeline
- The South European Pipeline
- Trans Alpine Pipeline
Middle Eastern Oil Pipelines
- Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline (ADCOP) project
- East-West Crude Oil Pipeline-Petroline, Saudi Arabia
- Eilat Ashkelon Crude Oil Pipeline
- Haditha Aqaba Oil Pipeline
- Kirkuk-Banias Oil Pipeline
- Trans-Arabian Pipeline, a.k.a. Tapline (defunct)
North America
- Alberta Clipper Pipeline
- Bakken Pipeline Project Canada
- Bakken Pipeline Project USA
- Basin Oil Pipeline
- Big Inch Calnev Pipeline
- Capline Oil Pipeline
- Cold Lake Pipeline System
- Double E Pipeline Project
- Double Eagle Pipeline
- Express Oil Pipeline System
- Flanagan to Cushing Pipeline Project
- Houston-to-El Paso Pipeline
- Keystone Pipeline
- Keystone XL Pipeline Project
- Lakehead Pipeline
- Minnesota Pipeline
- Monarch Oil Pipeline
- North Dakota System
- Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline Project
- Portland-Montreal Pipe Line
- Seaway Crude Oil Pipeline
- Spearhead Oil Pipeline
- Texas Express NGL Oil Pipeline
- Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
- Trans Mountain Pipeline
- Westward Ho Oil Pipeline Project
- White Cliffs Pipeline
- Wrangler Oil Pipeline Project
- Yellowstone Oil Pipeline
South America
- Activo de Burgos - Pipeline Network - Mexico
- Bicentenario Pipeline Project - Colombia
- Burgos-Monterrey Pipeline - Mexico
- Cadereyta Pipeline - Mexico
- Curaray-Andoas oil pipeline project - Peru
- ECOPETROL Pipelines - Colombia
- North Peru Pipeline Project - Planned
- OCP Pipeline - Ecuador
- Ocensa Oil Pipeline - Colombia
- OIL TANKING Pipeline - Argentina
- PDVSA Pipelines - Venezuela
- PEMEX Pipelines - Mexico
- PETROANDINA Pipeline - Argentina (Under Construction)
- Recope Pipelines - Costa Rica
- San Fernando Pipeline - Mexico
- SOTE Oil Pipeline - Ecuador
- Tamazunchale Pipeline - Mexico
- TGN Pipeline Network - Argentina
- TGI Pipeline Network - Colombia
- TGS Pipeline Network - Argentina
- Trans-Isthmian Pipeline - Panama
- Transpetro Pipelines - Brazil
- Venezuela Colombia Oil Pipeline Project
Links
- Original List taken from Wikipedia but has been and will be further developed.
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission USA Oil Pipeline Companies
- Canadian Energy Pipeline Association
- THE ROLE OF WTI AS A CRUDE OIL BENCHMARK