Named projects to build a pipeline or pipeline network for moving crude oil, natural gas or other energy commodities across a country or between countries. Belongs here: a specific pipeline construction undertaking named as a project. Does not belong here: an already-operating pipeline described as ordinary infrastructure rather than as a project; a national energy-policy program that is not itself a single pipeline, grouped under National Energy Initiative.
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The first crude oil pipeline was built by the Oil Transport Association, which constructed a 2-inch (51 mm) wrought iron pipeline over a 6-mile (9.7 km) track from an oil field in Pennsylvania to a railroad station in Oil Creek, in the 1860s.
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