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One fracture would drain the entire pipeline?Fuzzy Math dude. The pipeline 1,700 miles long, holds 700 gls a mile (according to you), so that is more than your oil tanker.
1,700-miles X 700 bls = 1,190,000 barrels
Would one fracture drain the entire ship?
OK how about oil tankers???
Approximately 5.7 million tonnes of oil were lost as a result of tanker incidents from 1970 to 2011.
http://www.itopf.com/information-services/publications/documents/STATSPACK2011.pdf
5,700,000 tons of oil spilled over 41 years...
5,700,000 tons is equal to 11.4 billion pounds of oil
one barrel contains 42 gallons or at 16 oz per pound 168 pounds of oil
11.4 billion pounds spilled over 41 years is 67.857 million barrels of oil spilled OR
1,655,052 barrels spilled per year by oil tankers!
Moved by Pipeline transportation
Interstate pipelines deliver over 11.3 billion barrels of petroleum each year.
AOPL*| Why Pipelines?
So if there are 11.3 BILLION barrels per year and pipelines average .88 Gallons per million barrels oil spilled by pipeline:
9,944 barrels.
WHICH SPILLS the more OIL per year????