Instrumentation Around a Warm Oil Pipeline Buried in Permafrost

• Published in: Canadian Geotechnical Journal
• Main Authors: Slusarchuk, W. A., Watson, G. H., Speer, T. L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1973
• Subjects: Ice; Inuvik; Mackenzie Valley; permafrost
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/t73-021; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/t73-021

A section of an uninsulated pipeline, 90 ft (27.4 m) long and 2 ft (0.61 m) in diameter, was buried in ice-rich permafrost at the Mackenzie Valley Pipe Line Research Limited Inuvik Test Facility. Oil at 160 °F (71 °C) was circulated through the pipe from July 1971 to January 1972 causing a thaw bulb...