A LONG PIPE LINE

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 83, 8 April 1920, Page 5

A LONG PIPE LINE

OIL TRANSPORT ACROSS

SCOTLAND

AMERICAN NAVY'S JOB;

One of the notable achievements of the.United States Navy during the war was the construction of a pipe-line across Scotland from the Clyde to the Firth of Forth, for ,ths purpose of supplying fuel oil to the British, naval* 'base at Rosyth, above the Forth bridge (says, the Scientific American). The line, 36 miles long, extends from Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde, 10 miles below Glasgow, to Grangemouth oh the Forth, and generally follows the line- of the Forth. Canal. There are three stations ■ on. the line; at Old Kilpatrick, Hungrysite, and Casthfcary ; and. a terminal, at Grangemouth, where the oil is stored and lpaded into boats. ■ The stations are. equipped with. Babcook and Wilcox boilers, high pressure pumps', and oil heaters, similar to those used in California and Mexico for' handling tha heavy local oils. The line is-an 8-inch pipe of steel and the pumps are capable of operating under a pressure of 300 pounds per square inch. As crude oil is viscous and difficult to pump over long distances, it has to be treated to thin it, and this is done with steam. generated lit tha threo. stations. Thfr pips ia' burled about three feefe in the jRSSSad*--.- ' ■ • - --;„