Little Did We Know
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About this book
Little Did We Know tells the remarkable story of the Trans Alaska Pipeline through the eyes of John Miller who shouldered responsibility for financing Sohios portion of the Alaskan venture that transformed the company from a small regional oil refiner and marketer into the fifteenth largest US industrial corporation. TAPS as the pipeline is known carries crude oil 800 miles from the Prudhoe Bay field on the North Slope of Alaska to the ice-free port of Valdez on the states southern coast. Building the pipelineone of the largest private industrial projects ever undertakenwas an incredible feat of engineering and for Sohio of financing. This is a saga about an engineer with no formal training in finance surmounting an onslaught of financial challenges raising more than $6 billion over a decadesomething many thought was well beyond Sohios capabilities.
