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- Length: 800 miles
- Diameter: 48 inches
- Crosses three mountain ranges and over 800 rivers and streams
- Cost to build: $8 thousand million in 1977, largest privately funded construction project at that time
- Construction began on March 27, 1975 and was completed on May 31, 1977
- First oil moved through the pipeline on June 20, 1977
- Over 13 thousand million barrels have moved through the Trans Alaska Pipeline System