Electrical sinews for the big inch pipe lines

The 24-inch pipe line, the Big Inch, will transport 300,000 barrels of crude petroleum 1,400 miles daily from the heart of Texas oil fields to the Eastern Seaboard. The new 20-inch refined-products line is 150 miles longer and has a capacity of 235,000 barrels per day of refined products. Power supply, substations, motors, and controls of the operating equipment, as well as high lights of the construction problems are discussed in this article by an outstanding authority on electrical problems associated with oil pipe lines.