Examples of stamps depicting petroleum transportation methods other than tankers:
(stamps are not all shown to same scale)

This 1964 stamp from the Peoples' Republic of China
shows railroad oil tank cars at a loading rack with
derricks in the background.


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A 1975 stamp from Czechoslovakia depicting the laying of the Drushba
(Friendship) petroleum pipeline.

A 1984 Czechoslovakian souvenir sheet showing the pipelaying equipment and route
for the Transgas pipeline from the Soviet Union to eastern Europe.

A 1983 Soviet stamp and cancellation depicting the Urengoi-Uzgorod
pipeline used to transport natural gas west from Siberia.

A pair of 1968 Libyan stamps showing transport of oil from the geologic
structure to the Zueitina tanker terminal via pipeline.

A 1985 Saudi Arabian stamp showing the route of a pipeline designed to
carry oil from the eastern oilfields to the Yanbu tanker terminal in the Red Sea.

A Qatari stamp of 1972 showing divers constructing an
underwater pipeline to carry oil to onshore terminals.


© Peter A. Scholle, 2000

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