Pipelines
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Archeological surveys, excavations and monitoring at pipeline construction belong among the largest of OCA projects. Major surveys and excavations have been performed by OCA to secure archaeological clearance for the following pipeline constructions:
-Transwestern Pipeline Expansion Project conducted for Transwestern pipeline Company
-Mid-American Pipeline conducted for the Mid-American pieplien Company
-Cortez CO2 Pipeline conducted for Woodward-Clyde Consultants of Walnut Creek, California
-Mid-American Pipeline Loop conducted for Enterprise, Inc. of Houston, Texas
-Bravo CO2 Pipeline conducted for AMOCO Production Company and Bravo Company
-Continental Divide Pipilene conducted for Continental Divide Pipeline Company
-Chevron Pipelinecoducted for Chevron Pipewline Company
These projects have resulted into the following publications:
Kenneth Brown (1999): Data Recovery along the 1995 MAPCO Four Corners Pipeline (Volume 2 -5), OCA/UNM Report No. 185-547d
Ronna J. Bradley and Kenneth L. Brown (1998): Cultural Resources along the MAPCO Four Corners Pipeline (Vol. 1), OCA/UNM Report No. 185-547b
Michael P. Marshall, Nancy J. Akins, and Joseph C. Winter (1986): The 1983 Cultural Resources Monitoring and Data Recovery Project for the Cortez CO2 Pipeline in the Las Huertas Valley Area, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-161i, j
Michael P. Marshall (1985): The Excavation of the Cortez CO2 Pipeline Prpoject Sites, 1982-1983, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-161a, c, d, m
Frank E. Wozniak (1985): Across the Caprock: A Cultural Resources Survey on the Llano Estacado and the Canadian River Valley of East Central New Mexico for the Bravo CO2 Pipeline, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-191 (report cover shown in picture below)
Marcia Donaldson (1983): Cultural Resource Inventory along the Proposed Continental Divide Pipeline,OCA/UNM Report No. 185-107 (report cover shown in picture below)
Patrick Hogan and Joseph C. Winter (1981): Test Excavations at Six Sites in the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Central New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-88 (report cover shown in picture below)
Anthropological studies along the Transwestern Pipeline remains, to date, OCA's largest project ever conducted. Archeological surveys, excavations and archival research was performed for the sites along the Arizona-New Mexico-Colorado pipeline owned by Transwestern Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of the ENRON Corporation. The work resulted into a 20-volume publication (see all volumes in the List of OCA Publications). |
