The
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (
TAPS) includes the trans-Alaska
crude-oil pipeline, 12
pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. TAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems. It is commonly called the
Alaska pipeline,
trans-Alaska pipeline, or
Alyeska pipeline, (or
the pipeline as referred to in
Alaska), but those terms technically apply only to the of the pipeline with the diameter of 48 inches (122 cm) that conveys oil from
Prudhoe Bay, to
Valdez, Alaska. The
crude oil pipeline is privately owned by the
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.