In order to rationalize the transportation means to cope with the increasing in petroleum demand of Japan in future, it is hard to realize it only by the existing transportation means. Therefore, it is noteworthy that the pipe line transportation has emerged as a new one in substitution or supplementation of the existing transportation system.
Here, we can state the problems and the ways to solve the defficulties in which the introducting of pipe line is to be expected, using by the report of “the Survey of the Rationalization of Internal Oil Flow in Japan”, issued by the Bureau of Mines, Ministry of International Trade and Industry in June 1969.