Transwestern Pipeline - Robert Yarnall Richie Collection

Duration: 28:03:00

Year Published: 1960s

Sound: silent

Description: This industrial stock footage, likely shot in the late 1960s, documents the construction of a natural gas pipeline route operated by the Transwestern Pipeline Company. Now owned by the Dallas-based company Energy Transfer Partners, the Transwestern Pipeline system transports natural gas from the San Juan Basin, Rocky Mountain Basin, and Permian Basin to California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Robert Yarnall Richie, who shot this film, was a freelance industrial photographer and filmmaker who worked with various large corporations in Texas and around the globe.