"Oil at the North Slope, oil at Alaska's North Slope at Prudhoe Bay, a lot of it. Possibly the biggest discovery in history, who knows. It's there alright. But how does one harvest and deliver a products so plentiful without transportation over the endless miles of tundra and the nearest city Fairbanks, some 300 miles to the South? The answer was found. Pipe, a giant 48 inch pipeline, a project of seven of the large oil companies known as Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, a pipeline from oil rich Prudhoe Bay, 800 miles South of Valdez, and Prince William Sound, the northernmost ice free port in North America."--Transcript
