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Amoco
Pipeline Company,
Oil Pipeline Industry Glossary of Terms (undated) -
00035
This
glossary is useful to readers unfamiliar with the sometimes
strange language of pipelines and pipeliners.
Association
of Oil Pipe Lines,
Pipelines 101 (2002) - http://www.pipeline101.com/index.html
Despite
the obvious bias of the AOPL, this contains useful basic
information about U.S. oil pipelines, such as safety and
environmental regulations, operations and maintenance, business
practices, design and construction, technology, and history.
For example, oil is measured in barrels (42 gallons) because
when the industry began in the 1860s, crude oil was carried
in old whiskey barrels of standard size.
Attorney
General of Florida,
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)
in Florida (1993) - 00091
This
report describes the use of litigation by real estate developers
or corporations to attempt to silence citizen opposition
by personally suing them for often huge financial damages.
It includes several state legislative proposals to limit
the abusive use of SLAPP suits.
LandTech
Enterprises SA,
How Pipelines Work (2002) - http://www.landtech.org/howpipelineswork.htm
This
booklet by an oil and gas technology company is a brief,
but useful description of how the U.S. oil pipeline system
works.
Special
Libraries Association,
Sources of Information in Transportation: Pipelines - 5th
Edition (2001) - http://199.79.179.78/ref/biblio/pipelines/
This
somewhat limited bibliography of technical books and reports
is arranged by subject, such as corrosion and cracking,
or design and construction. Unfortunately, almost all of
the cited publications are not directly accessible by online
links.
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