Transporting Arctic petroleum: a role for commercial submarines

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: McLaren, Alfred. S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1984
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Polar Record; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400004782; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400004782

Abstract Following a review of commercially-viable offshore oil deposits in northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland, the author explores alternative possibilities currently under consideration for transporting the oil to centres where it will be used. Hazards of pipeline construction, particularly under water, and the problems and dangers associated with giant surface tankers and projected giant submarines are discussed. The author concludes that conventional submarines towing oil-filled plastic drogue tanks offer the safest and most expeditious method of solving the problem. This is the second of two articles (see Polar Record , 21 (133): 369–81 (1983)).