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Moves crude oil & petroleum products to Parkland Burnaby refinery & Suncor Burrard products terminal; moves crude oil to four refineries in Washington via connection at Sumas to Puget Sound Pipeline; moves crude oil to Asia and U.S. West coast via Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby.
The East-West Pipeline, also known as the Petroline, is a 746 miles (1,201 km)-long 48 inches (120 cm) pipeline that runs from the Abqaiq oil field in the Eastern Province (near Bahrain and Qatar on the Persian Gulf coast) across the width of the Arabian Peninsula to the Red Sea. It was built during the Iran-Iraq war. [1]
The 48-inch (1,200 mm) pipeline is 360 kilometres (220 mi) long, of which 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) is an offshore section. It passes east of Abu Dhabi city, through Sweihan and west of Al Ain. [8] The pipeline has a capacity of 1.5 million barrels per day (~7.5 × 10 ^ 7 t/a). It cost $3.3 billion. [3]
Right now, the Middle East is all about oil and natural gas, though in recent years, Coal production is minimal, and there is only one nuclear power plant. TMF World Energy Map: Middle East
Trans-Arabian Pipeline Map. The Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline), was an oil pipeline from Qaisumah in Saudi Arabia to Sidon in Lebanon, active 1950–1976.In its heyday, it was an important factor in the global trade of petroleum, as well as in American–Middle Eastern political relations, while locally helping with the economic development of Lebanon.
The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a 1,768 kilometres (1,099 mi) long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku , the capital of Azerbaijan and Ceyhan , a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey , via Tbilisi , the capital of Georgia .
The Kirkuk-Mediterranean pipeline was a mixed 10/12-inch twin crude oil pipeline from the oil fields in Kirkuk, located in the former Ottoman vilayet of Mosul in northern Iraq, through Transjordan to Haifa in mandatory Palestine (now in the territory of Israel); and through Syria and a short stretch of what was to become the state of Lebanon to Tripoli.
In 2009 the largest share of oil production was in the Middle East (24 million barrels daily, or 31 percent of global production). According to Transparency International based on BP data regionally the largest share of proved oil reserves is in the Middle East (754 billion barrels, constituting 51 percent of global reserves including oil sands and 57 percent excluding them).