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CHAPTER 2 <br />BACKGROUND AND HISTORY <br />In 1932, the Great Lakes Pipeline Company (purchased by Williams Pipe Line <br />Campany in 'l9fifi) laid its first six inch petroleum product pipeline through the area and <br />constructed four storage tanks near the westem boundary of Ramsey County. <br />Roseville, then a part of a much iarger area known as Rose Tov�mship, was primariiy an <br />agricultural community. <br />The Great Lakes Pipeline Company was a nine company consortium consisting of: <br />Barnsdahl �il Company <br />Cities Service Oil Company <br />Co�tinental Oil Company <br />Mid Continent Oil Company <br />Phillips Petroleum <br />Pure Oil Company <br />Sinclair Oil Company <br />Skelly Oi1 Company <br />Texaco Oil Company <br />Continentai Qif Company had a 51 % ownership. <br />Under tf�is consortium, the following expansions occurred: <br />Pipefines laid: <br />1932 <br />1938 <br />1950 <br />1957 <br />No. 1-- 6 inch (no Ionger in service) <br />No. 2- 6 inch (no Ionger in service} <br />No. 4- 12 inch, Newport Line <br />No. 2- 8 inch, Duluth S�perior Line <br />Storage Tanks erected: <br />1932 4 tanks <br />1938 15 tanks <br />1943 4 tanks <br />19�0-52 13 tanks <br />Nos. 805, 806, 807, 8Q8 <br />Nos. 381, 425, 509, 510, fi4fi, 649, 650, 717, <br />718, 719, 720, 743, 745, 904, 951 <br />Nos. 809, 810, 8'{ 3, 814 <br />Nos. 8� 5, 81 fi, 817, 818, 819, 820, 822, 823, <br />824, 825, 82fi, 827, and 828 <br />Tank trucks loaded: confinuously from 1932 to the present time. <br />In 194fi Amoco Oil Company (then operating as Standard Oil Company) entered the <br />petroleum products pipefir�e and storage tanks picture in Rose Towr�ship. <br />2-1 <br />