OIL

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 You find oil in various parts of the world - including Alaska and Texas (where these photos were taken).

It is pumped out of the ground - either from land or from water.

Pumping at Crystal Beach, TX

An oil field not far from our house in Texas.

We see this huge oil platform every day
on the Gulf.

Sometimes oil platforms need to be pulled in to repair.

It is stored in huge tanks.

These tanks are a few of many, not far from us.
The Gulf of Mexico and its coast is one of the largest oil areas in the world.

Behemoth refineries are built.

Refinery at North Pole, AK in 1975

Oil field on the North Slope in Alaska

The crude is put in pipelines.  (Below are pictures taken in 1974 of Five Mile Camp, one of the camps used in building the Alaska Oil Pipeline.  Rev. Gene Straatmeyer  was flown to the area as a chaplain to the pipeline workers.

Five Mile Camp
(5 miles north of the Yukon River)

This picture taken in 1975.

Trans Alaska Pipeline camp from the air.

Alaska Pipeline construction in 1975

The Trans Alaska Pipeline near Fairbanks, Alaska, 1975

Up hills, down mountains, around corners, below ground --
the pipeline is an engineering marvel.

2012 Oil tanker on its way through Galveston Bay.

A tanker like this - the Exxon Valdez -
caused the huge spill off the coast of Alaska .

BUT. . .

But, this is what happens to the Alastkan tundra during an oil spill.