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3. Long-distance pipelines, which naturally shorten the alternative
sea route.
4. Pipelines which transport oil from ports of discharge to inland
refineries located in industrial areas, remote from a seaport.
8.3.2 Pipeline Gathering Schemes
Figure 7 illustrates the transport of oil by pipelines. It is a collection of
pipelines that takes oil from wellhead all the way to the loading ports or
refineries. Crude oil is collected from each individual wellhead by small-
diameter pipelines, which then converge on a collecting center. At the
collecting center, oil is directed to the gas–oil separating plant (GOSP) to
Figure 8 Oil field gathering system: typical four schemes. (After Yocum.)
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