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The Story of the Iraq-Mediterranean Pipe-Line. First edition, celebrating the construction of this critical oil artery. It discusses the history of the project, its engineering and logistics challenges, and the local diplomacy required to receive the necessary permissions. The many photographic illustrations show the pipeline at various stages of completion and profile the company employees that planned and organised this feat.In 1927, the Iraq Petroleum Company discovered a rich oilfield at Kirkuk and began to extract and transport crude at a never-before-seen scale. First, the British proposed to connect Kirkuk with Haifa in Mandatory Palestine. However, the French government demanded that the oil instead be sent to Tripoli, so a twin pipeline was conceived that could service both ports.The pipes were 30.5 centimetres in diameter, could carry a million tons of oil a year each, and were supported periodically by 12 pumping stations. The two lines were constructed in parallel from Kirkuk to the city of Haditha, the location of Pumping Station K-3, where they split into the northern "T Line" and the southern "H Line". Construction began in 1932 and was completed by 1934 on a budget of approximately £10,000,000. "Materials from overseas exceeded 200,000 tons, and building materials obtained locally at least equalled that" (p. 2) The oil flowed until 1948, when the formation of the state of Israel led the Iraqi government to cut off the Haifa branch.This work details not just th

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