Capline….Oil For the Midwest; Capline….Oil For the Midwest

  • Introduction: "This is a story with two beginnings..."
  • Titles
  • The Midwest and its need for oil
  • Off-shore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, the source of oil for the Capline Pipeline
  • Hard hats with the logos of Clark, Marathon, MV, Texaco, Ashland, Shell and Service Pipe Line Company
  • Pipeline history, illustrated with drawings and paintings of early pipelines
  • Capline planning
  • University of Kentucky
  • Research and development
  • Right of Way Agents meet with land owners along proposed pipeline
  • Pipeline manufacturing process at steel mill factory
  • Delivering pipelines
  • Map showing six sections of proposed pipeline
  • Conservation efforts
  • Welding "double-jointed" pipeline
  • Special protective coating for the swampland pipeline
  • Quality control for welding
  • Installing pipeline
  • Coating and wrapping pipeline
  • Special operations: The Mississippi River
  • Aerial view of Mississippi River installation
  • Special operations: The Ohio River
  • Special operations: Swamp installation
  • Right of Way Agents make a post-installation visit to landowners
  • Cleaning sphere pumped through pipeline
  • Electronic control center of pipeline
  • Map of oil distribution from pipeline's end in Petoka, Illinois
  • The future of the Capline Pipeline: "Doing its part to ensure that future generations will always be able to say, 'Fill 'er up'".
  • Closing credits