1876 S. P. Sadtler in F. Platt (U. S. Geol. Survey) 148 The gas is used to heat the boilers of the pumping engine of an oil pipe-line.
1946 37 The laying of a system of oil pipelines under the sea stretching across the Channel from the British coast to the Continent.
2000 16 Apr. 1/6 Albright expressed US pleasure with Almaty's stance on the proposed Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline.