2. The pipeline system in Alaska

Place: Alaska
Total Expense: $8 Billion* Completed Year: 1977
The 1973 oil crisis gave rise to a significant spike in oil prices, which gave rise to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, a “pipe” dream. After a little over three years, work on the eight hundred miles of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was finished in the first half of 1977, and the pipeline was operating at full capacity by the end of the same year. More than seventeen billion barrels of oil are said to have been delivered through the pipeline’s eleven pump stations by 2014.