ESTIMATE OF DIRECT COSTS FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF TRANS-ARABIAN PIPELINE

Contents

• Foreword
• Estimates of annual costs of operating Tapline
• Cost break-down covering maintenance and operating of Tapline
• Salaray and wage rates used in estimating operating costs
• Fuel and lubricating oil consumption at pump stations
• Station supplies and spare parts
• Maintenance of superchargers
• Suction booster centrifugal pumps
• Pipes, valves and fittings at pump stations
• 97,000 BBL. crude oil tank at pump stations
• Maintenance materials
• Communication cost basis
• Mess hall and laundry
• Furniture and fixtures community center
• Hospital expenses
• Sewer system
• Water system
• Material and supplies
• Transportation rates
• Annual operation costs stations 2 to terminal
• Cars and trucks
• Aircraft
• Water wells
• Main roads
• Damages, visitors and transients
• Memo: Evaporation and oil losses
• Administrative costs
• Labor costs in Arabia
• Memo: Non-american employees and processing american employess for overseas service and Living allowances
• Memo: Salaries
• Include and excluded items

  Supplements

• Tankage at station No. 1
• Viscosity and gravit of crude oil to exported by pipeline

(The report is contributed by John Makkinje.)