Big Inch pipeline
Oleoducto Big Inch
- Date
- 1943 · confidence high
- Place
- Longview, Texas, United States
- Credited to
- US government (War Emergency Pipelines)
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A 24-inch pipeline of about 2,000 km from Texas to Pennsylvania built within a year to supply the East with crude during the submarine war. It was the longest crude pipeline until then.
It was converted to natural gas in 1947.
What it led to
- pipeline transport as an alternative to tanker and rail
- postwar gas pipelines
- national natural gas grids