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The Big Inch and Little Big Inch, collectively known as the Inch pipelines, are petroleum pipelines extending from Texas to New Jersey, built between 1942 and 1944 as emergency war measures in the United States.
the Big and Little Big Inch pipelines were 1,254 and 1,475 miles (2,018 and 2,374 kilometres) long respectively, with 35 pumping stations along their routes. The project required 16,000 people and 725,000 short tons (658,000 t) of materials.
The National Tube Company of Lorain, Ohio produced from 137,500 tons of steel the pipe for the 550-mile section between Long View and Norris City in 4 month[s]
The schedule called for 5 miles (8.0 km) of the Big Inch pipeline to be laid each day. But soon men were laying as much as 9 miles (14 km) a day.
Oil began flowing through the Big Inch Line between Texas and Illinois on New Year’s Eve 1942
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Import volume: China imported approximately 11.3 million barrels per day of crude oil in 2023.
Curiously, all my girlfriends refer to me as the Big Inch.
That's because I, too, laid a lot more pipe than they expected.
Y’see.