The Rhone Pipeline (French: Oléoduc du Rhône) is a crude oil pipeline, which connects Italy and Switzerland.
Route The pipeline starts from the marine terminal in Genoa. It runs through the Alps and the Great St Bernard Tunnel to Collombey-Muraz in the Rhône Valley in the Swiss canton of Valais, where it supplies the Tamoil oil refinery at Collombey-Muraz.
History The construction of the pipeline started in 1960.
Since 2015, the oil transport has stopped due to Tamoil's decision to idle the oil refinery of Collombey-Muraz.L’oléoduc du Rhône est en stand-by. in: Le Temps, 13 July 2015.'The Swiss refinery closed, the Rhone pipeline dies. in: La Stampa, 14' June 2019.
Technical features The diameter of the trunkline is and in diameter.
The capacity of the pipeline is approximately 1.1 million barrel of crude oil per year.
See also Transalpine Pipeline
References
Bibliography Ulrich P. Büchi: Die schweizerische Erdölfrage im Jahre 1968. in: Bulletin der Vereinigung Schweizerischer Petroleum-Geologen und -Ingenieure, 36, 1969, pp. 6–10.
External links Oléoduc du Rhône S.A. Pipelines en Autriche, Italie, Suisse. Oléoducs, gazoducs et produits dérivés GeoMondiale.fr Eni in Svizzera Erdöl – der Weg in die Schweiz