Amongst the biggest pipeline construction maintenance projects undertaken ever, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is perhaps the famous one. It comprises of exceeding than one thousand two hundred kilometers of pipeline and needed about eleven pump stations to maintain the flow of oil within the conditions of sub-zero temperature. This specific pipeline construction was erected in view of the international oil shortage which occurred in the year 1973 and which contributed to all-out rationing of oil and speed limitation in order to preserve the quickly depleting supplies. Oil found some years back in the year 1968 at the Prudhoe Bay area of Northern Alaska offered a way out and job started on the construction of pipeline in the year 1974 after legal hindrances were overcome in respect of the project. The construction of the pipeline was eventually finished in the year 1977, covering just three years prior to first oil reach the Gulf of Alaska port at Valdez.

Russian pipeline construction maintenance, majority of which is utilized for the shipping of natural gas has been performed on a greater scale. The project generally, termed as the Trans-Siberian Pipeline, dispatches petroleum gas covering a complete distance of four thousand five hundred kilometers and proceeds to the Urengoy gas field in Russian and on to Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. The whole process of pipeline construction is a vital forerunner to original building. Some pipeline services are reviewed to include integrity, new construction and maintenance along with swamp installation, marsh and rehabilitation, directional drilling, slick bore installation, emergency response leak sealing and large recoating for this project. This describes and illustrates proper ways of reclamation and mowing, plant grounds maintenance and facilities as well as site preparation.