Breaking ice for Arctic oil : the epic voyage of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage /
In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Proposed as an alternative to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline,...
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Fairbanks :
University of Alaska Press,
©2012.
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