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pipeline

[pahyp-lahyn] / ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn /








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The East-West pipeline had been carrying roughly 4 million barrels a day before it was shut due to damage caused by drone attacks on Sept. 10.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The restart of the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia and the resumption of Red Sea oil exports has crude oil futures declining.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Roughly 4 million barrels a day—around 4% of global supply—were flowing through it before drone strikes blamed on Iran-backed forces in Iraq damaged the pipeline on Sept. 10, analysts estimate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Saudi Arabia is also starting to pump crude through its damaged East-West pipeline and load it on tankers in the Red Sea, though volumes remain reduced, officials familiar with the operations said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Civil rights groups have also developed litigation and important coalitions related to the school-to-prison pipeline, inadequate indigent defense, and juvenile justice reform, to name a few.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“We fundamentally believe there is going to be a massive build-out of new natural gas-fired facilities, and in order for those facilities to run, you need the pipelines to connect to them.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Potential applications include concrete pavements, highway parapet walls, and sewer pipelines.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The move is a tacit acknowledgment that the seven-month conflict has roiled the global energy market and destroyed regional pipelines and refineries that will be costly to rebuild.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

A drone attack that heavily damaged one of Saudi Arabia’s pipelines is expected to cause crude oil exports to fall by 400,000 barrels per day this month alone.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

For instance, during the War, after the pipelines were blown up, he and his classmates had ferried water up to the girls’ dorm, each leaving his bucket at the door of a particular resident.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Blackford Oakes, Yale '51, is pipelined by the old-boy network straight into the CIA.

From Time Magazine Archive

It could be pipelined to Murmansk, liquefied and shipped to the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The glass-bottom boats that take tourists out to marvel at the Gulf of Aqaba's coral formations rock in the swells of supertankers bringing Persian Gulf oil into Eilat to be. pipelined to the Mediterranean.

From Time Magazine Archive

On a pipelined machine, this can take a while. :stale pointer bug: /n./

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Eric S. Raymond

On a pipelined machine, this can take a while. :stale pointer bug: n.

From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Eric S. Raymond

“We’re pipelining our deployment playbook across several cities simultaneously now.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023




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