Instrumentation around a warm oil pipeline buried in permafrost

• Main Authors: Slusarchuk, W. A., Watson, G. H., Speer, T. L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: permafrost; pergélisol; soils; sol; measuring instruments; instrument de mesure; cold regions; zone froide; oil pipelines; oléoduc; Barres; Inuvik; Mackenzie Valley; Ice
• Online Access: https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/ft/?id=738e512f-3b1d-4b55-a783-10e2d1277c69; https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/object/?id=738e512f-3b1d-4b55-a783-10e2d1277c69; https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/fra/voir/objet/?id=738e512f-3b1d-4b55-a783-10e2d1277c69

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 degrees F (71 degrees C) was circulated through the pipe from July 1971 to January 1972 causi...