What is the name of the world's largest oil pipeline. Largest gas pipelines

Back in the 2nd-3rd century BC. cases of use are known natural gas V national economy. So, for example, in ancient China gas was used for lighting and heat. Gas was supplied from fields to consumers through bamboo pipes due to the pressure of the gas source, i.e. "by gravity." The pipe joints were caulked with tow. Gas pipelines in the modern sense of the word began to widely appear at the beginning of the 19th century and were used for lighting and heating needs, as well as for technological needs in production. In 1859 in American state Pennsylvania, a gas pipeline with a diameter of 5 cm and a length of about 9 km was built, connecting the field and the nearest city of Titesville.

Over the course of a century and a half, the need for gas has grown hundreds of times, and along with it the diameter and length of gas pipelines have increased.

Today, main gas pipelines are pipelines designed to transport natural gas from production areas to points of consumption. At certain intervals, gas compressor stations are installed on the pipeline to maintain pressure in the pipeline. At the final point of the main gas pipeline there are gas distribution stations where the pressure is reduced to the level necessary to supply consumers.

Currently, from an efficiency point of view, the maximum diameter of a gas pipeline is considered to be 1420 mm.

Russia

Today, Russia ranks first in the world in terms of proven gas reserves (25% of global reserves), and the Russian gas transportation system is the largest in the world. Average range gas transportation today is about 2.6 thousand km for supplies for domestic consumption and approximately 3.3 thousand km for supplies for export. The length of main gas pipelines in Russia is 168.3 thousand km. This length is enough to circle the Earth four times.

Main part Unified system Russia's gas supply system was created in the 50-80s of the 20th century and, in addition to the gas pipeline system, includes 268 linear compressor stations with a total capacity of 42 thousand MW, 6 gas and gas condensate processing complexes, 25 underground storage facilities.

Today, the owner of the Russian segment of the UGSS is OJSC Gazprom.

On September 15, 1943, a gas pipeline with a diameter of 300 mm Buguruslan - Pokhvistnevo - Kuibyshev with a length of 165 km and a capacity of 220 million cubic meters per year was put into operation. On this day, the first gas arrived at the Bezymyanskaya CHPP and industrial enterprises of Kuibyshev. It is with this gas pipeline that the history of the development of our country’s gas transportation system begins.

Today the largest gas pipelines in Russia are:

Gas pipeline "Urengoy - Pomary - Uzhgorod"- main export gas pipeline built by the USSR in 1983 to supply natural gas from the fields of the north Western Siberia consumers in Central and Western Europe. Throughput capacity - 32 billion m³ of natural gas per year (design). The actual capacity is 28 billion m³ per year. Pipeline diameter - 1420 mm. The total length of the gas pipeline is 4451 km. An export pipeline project was proposed in 1978 from the Yamburg fields, but was later changed to a pipeline from the Urengoy field, which was already in production.

Gas pipeline "Union"— export gas pipeline. The diameter of the gas pipeline is 1420 mm, the design pressure is 7.5 MPa (75 atmospheres), the throughput capacity is 26 billion m³ of gas per year. The main source of gas for the pipeline is the Orenburg gas condensate field. Gas pipeline "Union" accepted for service on November 11, 1980. Gas pipeline "Union" passes through the territory of Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine along the route: Orenburg - Uralsk - Aleksandrov Gai - GIS "Sokhranovka" (border of Russia and Ukraine) - Kremenchug - Dolina - Uzhgorod. The total length of the gas pipeline is 2,750 km, including 300 km through the territory of Kazakhstan and 1,568 km through the territory of Ukraine.

Gas pipeline "Yamal - Europe"- transnational main export gas pipeline, commissioned in 1999. Connects gas fields north of Western Siberia with consumers in Europe. The gas pipeline has become an additional export corridor, increasing the flexibility and reliability of Russian gas supplies to Western Europe (through the YAGAL-Nord and STEGAL - MIDAL - Rehden UGS gas transportation systems).

It originates in the gas transportation hub in the city of Torzhok (Tver region). It passes through the territory of Russia (402 km), Belarus (575 km), Poland (683 km) and Germany. Ultimate western point main gas pipeline "Yamal-Europe" - compressor station "Malnov" (in the area of ​​Frankfurt-on-Oder) near the German-Polish border. The total length of the gas pipeline exceeds 2000 km, diameter - 1420 mm. Design capacity is 32.9 billion m³ of gas per year. The number of compressor stations on the gas pipeline is 14 (3 in Russia, 5 in Belarus, 5 in Poland and one in Germany).

"Nord Stream"- a main gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Gas pipeline "Nord Stream"- the longest underwater gas export route in the world, its length is 1224 km. Owned and operated by Nord Stream AG. Pipe diameter (external) - 1220 mm. Working pressure - 22 MPa.

The project involves Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and France; Russian gas transit countries and the Baltic countries opposed its implementation. The goals of the project are to increase gas supplies to the European market and reduce dependence on transit countries.

Pipeline construction began in April 2010. In September 2011, filling of the first of two lines with process gas began.

On November 8, 2011, gas supplies began along the first line of the gas pipeline. On April 18, 2012, the second line was completed. On October 8, 2012, gas supplies began on two lines of the gas pipeline in commercial mode.

Europe

One of the world's longest underwater gas pipelines runs between Norway and the UK along the bottom of the North Sea. Main gas pipeline "Langeled" connects the Norwegian gas field Ormen Lange with the British terminal at Easington. Its length is 1200 km. Construction began in 2004 and the official opening took place in October 2007 in London.

Near East

Gas pipeline "Iran - Türkiye", 2577 km long, runs from Tabriz through Erzurum to Ankara. Initially a gas pipeline "Tabriz - Ankara" with a throughput capacity of 14 billion m³ of gas per year was supposed to become part of the pipeline "Pars", which would connect European consumers with the large Iranian gas field South Pars. However, due to sanctions, Iran was unable to begin implementing this project.

Asia

Chinese gas pipeline "West East", with a length of 8,704 km, connects the main northwestern resources of the Tarim Basin - the Changqing field, whose reserves are estimated at 750 billion cubic meters of gas - with the economically developed east coast Celestial Empire. The gas pipeline includes one main line and 8 regional branches. The pipeline's design capacity is 30 billion m³ of natural gas per year. Thousands of kilometers of pipes stretch across 15 provincial-level regions and pass through various natural areas: plateaus, mountains, deserts and rivers. Pipeline "West East" is considered the largest and most complex gas industry project ever implemented in China. The goal of the project is the development of the western regions of China.

Gas pipeline « middle Asia- Center", with a length of 5000 km, connects the gas fields of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with industrialized areas central Russia, CIS countries and foreign countries. The first stage of the pipeline was put into operation back in 1967. For the first time in world history gas industry pipes with a diameter of 1200–1400 mm were used. During construction, underwater crossings of the main gas pipeline were carried out through largest rivers regions: Amu Darya, Volga, Ural, Oka. By 1985 the gas pipeline "Central Asia - Center" has turned into a multi-line system of main gas pipelines and gas branch pipelines with an annual throughput capacity of 80 billion m³.

Gas pipeline "Turkmenistan - China" passes through the territory of four countries (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and China) and has a length of 1833 km. Construction of the pipeline began in 2007. The official opening ceremony of the gas pipeline took place on December 14, 2009 at the Samandepe field (Turkmenistan). Pipe diameter – 1067 mm. The design capacity of the gas pipeline is 40 billion m³ of natural gas per year.

North America

The first and longest American gas pipeline to date "Tennessee", built in 1944. Its length is 3300 km, and it includes five lines with a diameter of 510 to 760 mm. The route runs from the Gulf of Mexico through Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Pennsylvania to West Virginia, New Jersey, New York and New England.

American high pressure gas pipeline "Rockies Express", 2,702 km long, laid out its route from the Rocky Mountains (Colorado) to Ohio. The last line of the gas pipeline was launched on November 12, 2009. The diameter is 910 - 1070 mm and consists of three lines that run through eight states. The pipeline's throughput capacity is 37 billion m³ of gas per year.

South America

Gas pipeline "Bolivia-Brazil" is the longest natural gas pipeline in South America. The 3,150-kilometer pipeline connects the gas fields of Bolivia with the southeastern regions of Brazil. It was built in two stages, the first branch with a length of 1418 km began work in 1999, the second branch with a length of 1165 km began work in 2000. The diameter of the gas pipeline is 410 - 810 mm. The pipeline's throughput capacity is 11 billion m³ of gas per year.

Africa

Main gas pipeline "TransMed", with a length of 2,475 km, laid its route from Algeria through Tunisia and Sicily to Italy, then the expansion of the pipeline supplies Algerian gas to Slovenia. The diameter of the ground part is 1070-1220 mm. The pipeline's current capacity is 30.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year. The first stage of the gas pipeline was built in 1978-1983, the second stage was put into operation in 1994. The gas pipeline includes the following sections: Algerian (550 km), Tunisian (370 km), underwater passage from the African coast to the island of Sicily (96 km), land Sicilian section (340 km), underwater passage from the island of Sicily to mainland Italy (15 km), a land section through the territory of Italy with a branch to Slovenia (1055 km).

Main gas pipeline "Maghreb-Europe" connects the giant Hassi-Rmel gas condensate field in Algeria - through the territory of Morocco - with the gas transmission system of Spain and Portugal. From the Spanish city of Cordoba, Andalusia region, the gas pipeline goes through the Extremadura region to Portugal. The main supplies of natural gas through the pipeline go to Spain and Portugal, with significantly smaller supplies going to Morocco. Construction began on October 11, 1994. On December 9, 1996, the Spanish section began operating. The Portuguese section was opened on February 27, 1997. The total length of the gas pipeline is 1,620 kilometers and consists of the following sections: Algerian (515 km), Moroccan (522 km), and Andalusian (269 km) sections with a diameter of 1,220 mm, an underwater section (45 km) with a diameter of 560 mm, and a Portuguese section ( 269 ​​km) passing through the Spanish Autonomous Region of Extremadura (270 km) with a diameter of 28 and 32 inches.

Australia

Main gas pipeline Dampier-Bunbury, commissioned in 1984, is Australia's longest natural gas pipeline. The length of the gas pipeline, whose diameter is 660 mm, is 1,530 km. It originates on the Burrup Peninsula and supplies gas to consumers in southwestern Australia.

Trunk oil pipelines have entangled planet Earth like a web. Their main direction is not difficult to determine: from oil production sites they are directed either to oil refining sites or to tanker loading sites. It is for this reason that the task of transporting oil has led to the creation of a large network of oil pipelines. In terms of cargo turnover, oil pipeline transport has far surpassed railway transport in terms of transportation of oil and petroleum products.

Main oil pipeline is a pipeline intended for transporting commercial oil from areas of their production (from fields) or storage to places of consumption (oil depots, transshipment bases, loading points into tanks, oil terminals, individual industrial enterprises and refineries). They are characterized by high throughput, pipeline diameter from 219 to 1400 mm and excess pressure from 1.2 to 10 MPa.

The leaders among pipeline transport operators are Russian company OJSC "Transneft"(its enterprises have the world's largest oil pipeline system - more than 50,000 kilometers) and a Canadian enterprise "Enbridge". According to experts in the United States, oil pipeline systems have reached their optimal level, and therefore their construction will be frozen at the current level. The construction of oil pipelines will increase in China, India and, strange as it may seem, in Europe, since there is a total diversification of supplies there.

Canada

The longest pipelines, other than the European continent, are in Canada and are directed to the center of the continent. Among them is an oil pipeline "Redwater - Port Credit", whose length is 4840 kilometers.

USA

The United States is the world's largest producer and consumer of energy. Oil is the main source of energy for the United States, and now supplies up to 40% of the country's needs. The United States has a very extensive oil pipeline system, especially densely covering the southeast of the country. Among them are the following oil pipelines:

- an oil pipeline with a diameter of 1220 mm, designed to pump oil produced at the Prudhoe Bay field in northern Alaska to the port of Valdez in its south. Crosses the state of Alaska from north to south, the length of the oil pipeline is 1288 km. Consists of crude oil pipeline, 12 pumping stations, several hundred kilometers of supply pipelines, and a terminal in the city of Valdez. Construction of the oil pipeline began after the 1973 energy crisis. The rise in oil prices has made it economically profitable to produce it in Prudhoe Bay. Construction faced many challenges, mainly the very low temperatures and difficult, isolated terrain. The oil pipeline was one of the first projects to run into problems permafrost. The first barrel of oil was pumped through the pipeline in 1977. It is one of the most protected pipelines in the world. The Trans-Alaska oil pipeline was designed by engineer Egor Popov to withstand an earthquake of up to 8.5 magnitude. It was laid above the ground on special supports with compensators, allowing the pipe to slide along special metal rails horizontally for almost 6 m, using a special gravel cushion, and 1.5 meters vertically. In addition, the oil pipeline route was laid using a zigzag broken line to compensate for stresses caused by soil displacement during very strong longitudinal seismic vibrations, as well as during thermal expansion of the metal. The pipeline's throughput capacity is 2,130,000 barrels per day.

Main oil pipeline system "Seaway"— a 1,080-kilometer pipeline transporting oil from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the terminal and distribution system of Freeport, Texas, located on the Gulf Coast. Pipeline is an important link in the transportation of crude oil between twooil regionsin the United States. The pipeline went online in 1976 and was originally designed to transport foreign oil from Texas ports to refineries in the Midwest. Oil was pumped in this direction until 1982, when a decision was made to transport natural gas through this pipeline, but in reverse direction- from North to South. In June 2012, oil was pumped through the pipeline again. The oil pipeline capacity is 400,000 barrels per day. The second line of the pipeline was commissioned in December 2014 and runs parallel to the first line "Seaway". The capacity of the second line is 450,000 barrels per day.

Pipeline "Flanagan south" put into operation in 2014 and has a length of 955 kilometers, crossing the states of Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The pipeline transports oil from Pontiac, Illinois, to terminals in Cushing, Oklahoma. The pipeline system has seven pumping stations. Pipeline "Flanagan south" provides additional capacity needed to deliver oil to refineries North America, and then through other oil pipelines on the US Gulf Coast. The pipeline capacity is approximately 600,000 barrels per day.

Pipeline "Spearhead"- a 1050 kilometer oil pipeline with a diameter of 610 mm, which transports crude oil from Cushing (Oklahoma) to the main terminal in Chicago (Illinois). The oil pipeline capacity is 300,000 barrels per day.

The first main oil pipeline with a diameter of 1000 mm in the United States was built in 1968 to transport oil from St. James (New Orleans) to Patoka (Illinois). The length of the oil pipeline is 1012 kilometers. Oil pipeline capacity "St James" - "Treacle" 1,175,000 barrels per day.

Oil pipeline system "Keystone"- a network of oil pipelines in Canada and the United States. Supplies oil from the Athabasca oil sands (Alberta, Canada) to US refineries in Steele City (Nebraska), Wood River and Patoka (Illinois), from the Texas Gulf Coast. In addition to synthetic oil and molten bitumen (dilbit) from the Canadian oil sands, light crude oil is also transported from the Illinois Basin (Bakken) to Montana and North Dakota. Three phases of the project are in operation - the fourth phase is awaiting US government approval. Section I, supplying oil from Hardisty, Alberta to Steele City, Wood River and Patoka, was completed in the summer of 2010 and spans 3,456 kilometers. Section II, the Keystone-Cushing spur, was completed in February 2011 with a pipeline from Steele City to storage and distribution facilities in the major Cushing, Oklahoma, hub. These two stages have the potential to pump up to 590,000 barrels per day of oil to Midwest refineries. The third phase, a branch from the Gulf Coast, opened in January 2014 and has a capacity of up to 700,000 barrels per day. The total length of the oil pipeline is 4,720 kilometers.

Oil pipeline system "Enbridge" is a pipeline system that transports crude oil and molten bitumen from Canada to the United States. The total length of the system is 5363 kilometers, including several tracks. The main parts of the system are the 2,306-kilometer Enbridge section (Canadian section of the highway) and the 3,057-kilometer Lakehead section (US section of the highway). The average throughput capacity of the oil pipeline system is 1,400,000 barrels per day.

Pipeline "New Mexico - Cushing"— length 832 kilometers, throughput capacity 350,000 barrels per day.

Pipeline "Midland - Houston"— length 742 kilometers, throughput capacity 310,000 barrels per day.

Pipeline "Cushing - Wood River"— length 703 kilometers, throughput capacity 275,000 barrels per day.

Latin America

New oil fields have been discovered in Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico. Now these states are fully provided with energy resources, the supply of which is ensured by such oil pipelines as "Sagliaco - Bahia Blanca" in Argentina, 630 km long, oil pipeline "Rio de Janeiro - Belo Horizonte» in Brazil with a length of 370 km, as well as an oil pipeline "Sicuco - Coveñas" in Colombia with a length of 534 km.

Europe

Europe has large oil and gas reserves. From countries included in European Union, 6 – oil producers. These are Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Romania and the Netherlands. If we take the EU as a whole, it is largest producer oil and ranks seventh and second in terms of its consumption in the world. The proven oil reserves of the EU countries at the beginning of 2014 amounted to 900 million tons. One of the largest highways - South European Oil Pipeline, which transports oil from the port of Lavert to Karlsruhe via Strasbourg. The length of this oil pipeline is 772 km.

Pipeline "Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan", intended for transporting Caspian oil to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, is located on the shore Mediterranean Sea. The oil pipeline was put into operation on June 4, 2006. Currently, the oil pipeline pumps oil from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli field block and condensate from the Shah Deniz field. Oil pipeline length "Baku - Tbilisi - Ceyhan" is 1768 kilometers. The oil pipeline passes through the territory three countries- Azerbaijan (443 km), Georgia (249 km) and Turkey (1076 km). The throughput capacity is 1.2 million barrels of oil per day.

Central European Oil Pipeline- a suspended crude oil pipeline that crosses the Alps along the route Genoa (Italy) - Ferrara - Aigle - Inglstadt (Germany). The oil pipeline was put into operation in 1960 and supplied oil refineries in Bavaria. The oil pipeline closed on February 3, 1997 due to environmental problems and high remediation costs. The length of the oil pipeline is 1000 kilometers.

Russia

One of the oldest domestic oil pipelines - "Friendship". The system of main oil pipelines was built in the 1960s by the USSR enterprise Lengazspetsstroy to deliver oil from the Volga Ural oil and gas region to socialist countries of Eastern Europe. The route runs from Almetyevsk (Tatarstan) through Samara to Mozyr and branches into northern and southern pipelines. The northern one passes through Belarus, Poland, Germany, Latvia and Lithuania, the southern one – through Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. To the main oil pipeline system "Friendship" includes 8,900 km of pipelines (of which 3,900 km are in Russia), 46 pumping stations, 38 intermediate pumping stations, the tank farms of which hold 1.5 million m³ of oil. The operating capacity of the oil pipeline is 66.5 million tons per year.

There is also an oil pipeline BTS-1, which connects the oil fields of the Timan-Pechora, West Siberian and Ural-Volga regions with seaport Primorsk The goals of the construction of the Baltic pipeline system were to increase the capacity of the oil export pipeline network, reduce the costs of oil exports, as well as the need to reduce the risks of oil transit through other states. The oil pipeline's throughput capacity is 70 million tons per year.

Everyone knows the oil pipeline BTS-2 from the city of Unecha in the Bryansk region to Ust-Luga in Leningrad region, designed to become an alternative route for Russian oil supplies to Europe, which will replace the Druzhba oil pipeline and will avoid transit risks.

ESPO(piping system "Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean") - an oil pipeline running from the city of Taishet (Irkutsk region) to the oil loading port of Kozmino in Nakhodka Bay. Pipeline construction ESPO has already been recognized as unique in a number of indicators, such as length (4740 km), working conditions, unique concern for the environment and an unprecedented synergistic effect for the regional economy. Its main goal is to encourage oil companies to develop fields in Eastern Siberia and diversify oil supplies by connecting large consumers in the Asia-Pacific region. Geopolitical factors also played a role - a number of laws in European countries that were aimed against dependence on Russian oil. In such a situation, it is best to look for new markets in advance.

Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC)- the largest international oil transportation project with the participation of Russia, Kazakhstan, as well as the world's leading production companies, created for the construction and operation of a main pipeline with a length of more than 1.5 thousand km. Connects fields Western Kazakhstan(Tengiz, Karachaganak) with the Russian Black Sea coast (Yuzhnaya Ozereevka terminal near Novorossiysk).

China

Today China consumes 10 million barrels of oil per day, although it produces only 200 million tons per year. Since the country has few of its own resources, every year it will become increasingly dependent on imported oil and gas. To solve this problem and for its own purposes, Russia built ESPO-1 with a length of more than 2500 km. It runs from Taishet to Skovorodino, and its throughput capacity is 30 million tons per year. Construction of the second part to the port of Kozmino (Pacific coast) is currently underway; in the meantime, deliveries are carried out by railway. Oil is supplied to China via the Skovorodino-Daqing highway section.

Thanks to the construction of the second string of the pipeline, the ESPO-2 project envisages an increase in throughput to 80 million tons per year. It is planned to launch in December 2012.

Kazakhstan

Pipeline "Kazakhstan-China" is the first oil pipeline for Kazakhstan that allows direct import of oil abroad. The length of the pipeline is about 2,000 kilometers and extends from the Caspian Sea to the city of Xinjiang in China. The pipeline is owned by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and oil company Kazakh KazMunayGas. The construction of the gas pipeline was agreed upon between China and Kazakhstan in 1997. The construction of the oil pipeline was carried out in several stages.

Near East

South Iran Oil Pipeline 600 km long, it is laid to the Persian Gulf and is an exit to world oil markets.

Pipeline "Kirkuk-Ceyhan"— a 970-kilometer oil pipeline, the largest oil pipeline in Iraq, connecting the Kirkuk field (Iraq) with the oil loading port in Ceyhan (Turkey). The oil pipeline consists of 2 pipes with a diameter of 1170 and 1020 millimeters, with a throughput capacity of 1,100 and 500 thousand barrels per day, respectively. But now the oil pipeline is not using all its capacity and in fact about 300 thousand barrels per day pass through it. In many places the pipes are in need of significant repairs. Since 2003, on the Iraqi side, the work of the oil pipeline has been complicated by numerous acts of sabotage.

Trans Arabian oil pipeline— A 1,214-kilometer, currently inactive oil pipeline that ran from Al-Qaisum in Saudi Arabia to Saida (oil loading port) in Lebanon. It served as an important part of the world oil trade, American and intra-Middle Eastern politics during its existence, and also contributed economic development Lebanon. The throughput capacity was 79,000 m 3 per day. Construction trans-Arabian oil pipeline began in 1947 and was carried out mainly under the leadership of the American company Bechtel. It was originally supposed to end in Haifa, which was then under the British Mandate of Palestine, but due to the creation of the State of Israel, it was chosen alternative route via Syria (Golan Heights) to Lebanon with a port terminal in Saida. Pumping oil through the pipeline began in 1950. Since 1967, as a result of the Six Day War, part of the pipeline that passed through the Golan Heights came under Israeli control, but the Israelis did not block the pipeline. After several years of ongoing disputes between Saudi Arabia, Syria and Lebanon over transit fees, the appearance of oil supertankers, and pipeline accidents, the portion of the line north of Jordan ceased operation in 1976. The remainder of the pipeline between Saudi Arabia and Jordan continued to transport small volumes of oil until 1990, when Saudi Arabia stopped supplies in response to Jordan's neutrality during the first Gulf War. Today, the entire line is unsuitable for oil transportation.

126. World pipeline transport

Along with rail and road, pipeline transport is one of the land modes of transport. However, while railways and roads transport both goods and passengers, pipelines are intended only for transporting liquid and gaseous products. Accordingly, they are usually divided into oil pipelines, product pipelines and gas pipelines (pulp pipelines are of very little importance).

The development of pipeline transport is inseparable from the development of the oil and gas industry. Oil and product pipelines, along with the tanker fleet, are the main means of transporting oil and petroleum products over medium, long and very long distances. The same function is performed by gas pipelines in the gas industry. Both of them ensure bridging the territorial gap between the areas of production and consumption of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons.

The history of pipeline transport, like the history of the oil industry, dates back to the middle of the 19th century. The first oil pipeline, only 6 km long, was built in the USA in 1865. Ten years later, the industrial center of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania was connected to the oil field by a 100-kilometer oil pipeline. In Latin America, the first oil pipeline was laid (in Colombia) in 1926, in Asia (in Iran) - in 1934, in foreign Europe (in France) - in 1948. Russian Empire the first product pipeline connecting Baku and Batumi was built in 1907. But widespread construction of oil pipelines began after the First World War, and gas pipelines - after the Second World War.

By the middle of the 20th century. the total length of pipelines in the world reached 350 thousand km, and in 2005 it exceeded 2 million km. Pipelines have been built and operate in several dozen countries around the world, but, as usual, the countries that are in the top ten according to this indicator are of decisive importance (Table 146).

Table 146

TOP TEN COUNTRIES BY LENGTH OF PIPELINES IN 2005

In addition to the ten leading countries, many other countries of the world, located in the Southwestern, South-East Asia, in North Africa, Latin America, as well as CIS countries.

Analyzing the location of oil and product pipelines, it can be noted that their largest systems have developed, firstly, in countries with large production and domestic consumption of oil and oil products, and sometimes exporting them (USA, Russia, Canada, Mexico, and Kazakhstan , Azerbaijan, etc.). Secondly, they have developed in countries with a pronounced export orientation of the oil industry (Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Algeria, Venezuela). Finally, thirdly, they were formed in countries with an equally pronounced import orientation of the oil industry (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Belarus, etc.). The longest oil trunk pipelines were built in the CIS countries, the USA, Canada, and Saudi Arabia.

Among the top ten countries in terms of gas pipeline length, the first seven positions - with a huge quantitative advantage - are occupied by economically developed countries. This is largely due to the fact that the construction of gas pipelines in China began relatively recently, while most developing countries if it exports natural gas, it is in liquefied form by sea. In turn, from those listed in the table developed countries The USA, Germany, France, Italy (to which we can add Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, etc.) have a pronounced consumer-import orientation, and Russia and Canada (to which we can add Turkmenistan, Norway, Algeria) have a consumer-oriented orientation. -export or export-consumer orientation. The longest gas pipelines operate in the CIS countries, Canada and the USA.

Density index pipeline network is used much less frequently than the indicator of density of iron and highways. Nevertheless, it can be noted that in terms of the density of the oil pipeline network, the countries of Western Europe (especially the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Great Britain), the United States and the small oil-producing and oil-exporting states of Trinidad and Tobago (“world record holder” with an indicator of 200 km per 1000 km) stand out 2 territories), Brunei and Bahrain. The Netherlands and Germany are the leaders in terms of density of the gas pipeline network (275 km per 1000 km 2 of territory).

Let us now turn to the characteristics of the work, i.e., the cargo flows of global pipeline transport. At the end of the 1990s. the cargo turnover of the world's oil and product pipelines was approaching 4 trillion t/km, and that of gas pipelines - to 2.5 trillion t/km (it will probably be clearer if we say that the world's oil and product pipelines annually pump more than 2 billion tons of oil and its products ). All the same countries that were already mentioned above participate in this cargo turnover, but with an even greater predominance of two of them - Russia and the USA.

Pipeline transport has great development prospects associated with the constant increase in demand for oil and especially natural gas. IN different regions and countries around the world, the construction of main oil pipelines continues. The main center of activity in this regard is in Lately became the Caspian region. The construction of gas pipelines has become even more widespread. They are also built in many regions and countries, but if we keep in mind only the most important of them, then we should name first of all the countries of the CIS, Southeast Asia, China, Australia, and secondly Western Europe, the USA and Canada, North Africa and Latin America. According to data for 2001, a total of 85 thousand km of new pipelines were being built in the world.

Russia, inferior to the United States in the total length of pipelines, back in the early 1990s. far exceeded them in terms of cargo turnover of this type of transport. This advantage remained even later: after all, the cargo turnover of Russian oil and gas pipelines is 1850 billion t/km, or almost a third of the world’s. Russia's leadership is largely due to the fact that its much newer construction and more modern pipelines thanks to large diameter pipes and high blood pressure have much greater throughput. This applies to international pipelines that have been operating for a long time - the Druzhba oil pipeline and the Soyuz and Bratstvo gas pipelines, through which oil and gas are supplied to foreign Europe. And even more so to the recently commissioned Baltic Pipeline System (BPS), which gave oil access to the Gulf of Finland, as well as to the Nord Stream (on the Baltic Sea) and South Stream offshore gas pipelines under construction on the Black Sea. On east direction The grandiose construction of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline is underway, through which Russian oil will go to the markets of the Asia-Pacific countries and the United States. Thanks to pipes with a diameter of almost 1.5 m, the throughput capacity of this oil pipeline will be 80 million tons per year.

Today it is impossible to imagine the existence of any economic empire that abandoned the use of transport networks. The globalization of the world economy has led to the fact that the production of modern technical equipment has become available to any large corporation. Now, producers' transportation costs suddenly became the decisive factor determining price competition.

Transport is the main link in absolutely any structure: from production household appliances before invention spaceships. Freight transportation, passenger trains, military aircraft - they are all united into a single transport network - the aorta, and individual species transport resemble communicating blood vessels. This strange organism is called the world economy.

Pipelines of the world.

The youngest mode of transport, which instantly turned out to be the most popular in the industry of highly developed countries, was pipeline transport. Appearing in the USA at the end of the 19th century, during the development of the oil industry, the first oil pipeline, only 6 kilometers long, became a long-awaited sip clean air for oil and gas corporations starting to gain strength. This is the only type of transport designed exclusively for the movement of goods, and only liquid and gaseous ones. No metals, no passengers - only oil and only gas. Pipelines currently account for 11% of global freight volumes, and this percentage continues to grow.

If you want to learn everything about pipeline transport in the world, it is worth considering that it is built on the principle of delivering gas and oil directly from the production site to anywhere in the world. The introduction of such segments into the infrastructure of global industry has become the least expensive way to transport bulk cargo over long distances. Pipeline transport has become widespread during the development of new natural gas and oil fields located far from areas of processing and subsequent consumption. The advantages of the pipeline network have made it possible to increase the volume of oil and gas pumped while reducing the cost of transportation, which has played a huge role in favor of the development of an extensive pipeline network.

Factors that distinguish the pipeline from other modes of transport:

• Possibility of year-round, virtually uninterrupted pumping of oil over any distance, with minimal cargo losses and costs.
• The ability to fully automate the entire process.
• The process of oil production has ceased to depend on climatic conditions.
• The unit cost of constructing 1 km of pipeline is two times less than 1 km of railway.
• The pipeline can be placed almost anywhere globe, significantly saving construction costs.

Currently, the pipeline specific gravity and the number of cargo flows is considered the most profitable type of transport network. Along with the increase in the volume of mined minerals, they began to expand transport routes. For countries with a vast territory, the development of such transport and communication systems has become task number one. The market for raw materials has intensified, and the commodity structure of cargo flows has changed. World economy began to adapt to the export orientation of the oil industry.

Leaders in global cargo turnover.

You can learn everything about pipeline transport in the world by following its development from the very beginning. The United States began construction of the pipeline much earlier than other countries. Russia, while inferior to other countries in the length of pipeline routes, did not remain in debt, already at the end of the 1990s, having far surpassed them in terms of pipeline cargo turnover. Subsequently, Russia retained its leadership right; the cargo turnover of Russian oil and gas pipelines accounts for almost a third of the world cargo turnover.

The 2005 table shows high level development of countries included in this ten. Changes, of course, occurred, but not strong ones. Russia is now the leader in the length of pipelines, the total length of the main system is 48.7 thousand km (data from 2006). This giant oil pipeline carries 90% of all Russian oil.

Pipeline transport undoubtedly has great developments in the future, but no matter how practical and inexpensive it is, how will its use ultimately affect the ecology of our planet? There are already a sufficient number of cases of oil pipeline breaks that caused colossal damage. environment. The environmental problem goes hand in hand with everyone positive qualities this new type of transport system, tightly integrated into the structure of the world economy. Don’t forget about it, because the first thing you need to do is preserve life on Earth and the health of all its inhabitants.

/ 19.04.2010

The birthday of gas pipeline transport was August 27, 1859, when former American railroad conductor Edwin Drake drilled a 25 m deep well in Pennsylvania and discovered gas instead of oil. Undeterred, Edwin built a pipeline with a diameter of 5 cm and a length of about 9 km to the city, where gas began to be used for lighting and cooking.

Since then, gas pipeline transport has developed and its scale has increased. Currently, the TOP 10 longest gas pipelines in the world are as follows.

1. Gas pipeline “ Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod”, 4451 km, built in 1983.

2. Gas pipeline “Yamal-Europe”, 4196 km. Passes through Vuktyl, Ukhta, Gryazovets, Torzhok, Smolensk, Minsk, the Polish cities of Zambrów, Włocławek, Poznan. The end point is Frankfurt an der Oder.

3. Chinese gas pipeline “West-East” (see figure for the article), 4127 km. Connects Xinjiang province with Shanghai.

4. The first American main gas pipeline “Tennessee” (Tennessee), 3300 km, built in 1944. The route runs from the Gulf of Mexico through the states of Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Pennsylvania to West Virginia, New Jersey, New York and New England .

5. Bolivia-Brazil pipeline (GASBOL), 3150 km. Longest gas pipeline South America. It was built in two stages, the first line with a length of 1418 km began operation in 1999, the second line with a length of 1165 km began operation in 2000.

6. Gas pipeline “Central Asia - Center”, 2750 km. Connects the gas fields of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with the industrialized regions of central Russia.

7. American gas pipeline Rockies Express, 2702 km. The route runs from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to Ohio. Built in 2009

8. Iran-Turkey gas pipeline, 2577 km. Routed from Tabriz through Erzurum to Ankara.

9. TransMed gas pipeline, 2475 km. The gas pipeline route runs from Algeria through Tunisia and Sicily to Italy.

10. Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline, 1833 km, built in 2010.

Next on the list are the Maghreb-Europe gas pipelines, 1,620 km long, as well as Australia’s longest gas pipeline, Dampier to Bunbury, 1,530 km long. A little shorter are the Dashava-Kiev-Bryansk-Moscow gas pipelines, 1300 km long, built in 1952, and Stavropol-Moscow, 1310 km long, built in 1956. The Nord Stream gas pipelines (Nord Stream, 1223) are even a little shorter km), and “Blue Stream” (Blue Stream, 1213 km).

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