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Alaska Oil Pipeline
Nonfiction • TV-PG • Directed by: World's Toughest Fixes • 50 minutes
Witness a high-stakes repair job as Sean Riley and a crew of 100 highly trained men and women shut down the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline-the only conduit to market for almost 15 percent of the US domestic oil production. This major fix calls for swapping out a 32-ton valve system, but the size of the job is the least of their problems. Crude oil is not just highly toxic-its explosive. Follow the crew as it races to complete the fix in just 36 hours.