Rhône Pipeline

Rhone Pipeline
Rhone Pipeline
Location
Country	Italy, Switzerland
From	Port of Genoa
Passes through	Ferrera Erbognone, Aosta, Great St Bernard Tunnel
To	Collombey-Muraz
General information
Type	oil
Partners	Tamoil
Operator	Société de l'oléoduc du Rhône (Eni)
Commissioned	1959
Technical information
Length	340 km (210 mi)
Maximum discharge	1,1 million bl per year

The Rhone Pipeline (French: Oléoduc du Rhône) is a crude oil pipeline, which connects Italy and Switzerland.

Route[edit]

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.

The construction of the pipeline started in 1960.^[1]

Since 2015, the oil transport has stopped due to Tamoil's decision to idle the oil refinery of Collombey-Muraz.^[2]^[3]

The diameter of the trunkline is 12 inches (300 mm) and 18 inches (460 mm) in diameter.

The capacity of the pipeline is approximately 1.1 million barrel of crude oil per year.

^ "La société "Oléoduc du Rhône" est constituée". Le Nouvelliste. 1 October 1960.
^ 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.

Ulrich P. Büchi: Die schweizerische Erdölfrage im Jahre 1968. in: Bulletin der Vereinigung Schweizerischer Petroleum-Geologen und -Ingenieure, 36, 1969, pp. 6–10.