The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-07

Pipeline Systems Rig Item
In OIL InhnStrN

CHICAGO March Winding
back ana forth iu nm iron network
concealed beneath the OH folds oi
the tfufrd states t gigantic lAhN-
ninth ~ uipoliucs $1,000 miles long,
daily o. d0iug work that would re
quirc goo 600 oil tank cars and 500
locomotlycs fullv one month 10 nan
ale, acrordiuc to estimates 81 pipe
iinc transportation experts
Practically every bhrrol or OIL
taken from the nations 25s,600 nc
tive wells today is shot through these
pipe lines nnd in this way reaches
tho OIL rcfiucrics ana sub'cpntn'y
tho oil markets. weeks and some
times months sooner than II shipped
by railroads
Tho rapid movement through
tho pipes compared with rail trans
portation, iE due TO the fact that the
flow through the underground aya-
tenn ig not stopped at any point until
n reaches It's destination IN the re-
nncrH' tanks, whereas the tank car,
attached to tho freight train. must
wait for bloClS signals. must change
crews at division points and finally.
nt It's destination must await It's turn
Ia the assembling of tho train.
Consequently tho oil pipe limos
systcu 81 tho country has now come
To bc regarded ns essential 60 the
rvcr-incrcasing ratio of oil produc-
tion as the well drlllor himself
The history of pipe line transpor-
tation goes back 10 civil war DAYS
aud has its setting IN tho pioneer oil
fields Of Pennsylvania when produc-
ton began 10 outstrip tho trnnspor-
tation facilities
This gave birth 10 the first pipe
line system. In 1891 Heman JancH
81 Erie, Pc. conceived four-inch
wooden pipe lirc from the Tarr farm
20 OH CITY, Pa. but never carried
n out. Then In 1899. n bill 10 aid
pipe line construction was introduced
In the Pennsylvania Legislature but
Il was huaten by tcRmstcrs' lobby.
In 1889 J. L. Iutchings. n New
Jersey operator. constructed two.
inch line from the Tarr farm 20
Humboldt. Pa Rut the toamatcrs
destroyed the line. tearing up huge
strips OF a. He tried again In 1868.
but again the line was destroyed.
Rut in 1866, with the aid NJ state
pnllce. Henry Harley RucceRsfullv re-
sisted the tcamstcrs and operated the
first successful line of two-inch pip
.ng, handling from aix To eight bar
-ela dav from Bonninghoff Run to
Shaffer. Pa.
Then. the network OF limos that
still operate today In Pcnnsylvania.
spread with such speed that soon the
supply Of lines exceeded the demand
Several lines, aa n result, operated
NJ n loss for years.
Tho now southern field In Okla
homa aud contiguous statos were
equipped almost from tho start with
he new oil transnortating system.
The southern field II now veri-
table labyrinth of lines. trunk sys-
TENS extending north tu Illinois re-
rinorios and southwgrd TO the gulf
coast stations The fields proper arc
honcycombcd with the smaller. feed
or pipes connecting and feeding the
trunk systems. A new well usually
means new pipeline.
Tho flow through this system In In
Cessunt but when there is demand
for different grade OF oil, there "
injected into tho same system a hcd
dor. or slug of water perhaps three
feet long and this heddcr separates
the different grades. Then another
heddcr is injected and following this
II the original grade OF oil, contlnu'
ing It's Huw.
Frequently bullet like "go-devil'
Ia pumped through the piping In IN,