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Record W2186043429

PIPELINES: Past, Present, and Future.

2007· article· en· W2186043429 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicOffshore Engineering and Technologies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPipeline transportFossil fuelPipeline (software)EngineeringPetroleum engineeringWaste managementEnvironmental engineeringMechanical engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper gives an overview of the history of oil and gas pipelines, and their status today. It concludes with a glimpse at future pipelines, and issues we will be facing as we continue to burn fossil fuels and look for alternatives. Pipelines have been used for thousands of years, but modern day pipelines have their origins in Pennsylvania, USA in the mid-1800s. As technology improved, larger and longer pipelines were built, and the demand for energy during World War II increased both the need and extent of pipelines in the USA, then around the world. Most countries now have large oil and gas pipelines systems: Russia has huge pipeline networks, and if you laid the Canadian pipeline system, end to end, it would extend 17 times around the world! Worldwide, there are about 3,500,000km of transmission pipelines transporting oil and gas. The big issue facing this vast pipeline system today is age; for example, over 50% of the 1,000,000 km USA oil and gas pipeline system is over 40 years old. The continuing demand for oil and gas will mean these ageing systems will need to function safely and efficiently for many more years. Therefore, the future for our current pipelines will see an emphasis on inspection and maintenance. But what about new pipelines? Certainly, we will be building many new oil and gas pipelines, some in hostile environments, such as deep water. We will also be building pipelines to carry differing products, such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen, as the drive for cleaner and alternative fuels continues.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.873
Threshold uncertainty score0.258

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Citations10
Published2007
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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