Question

1. In the context of pipelines, what is the difference between a gathering line and a trunk line?

2. What is the difference between materials handling and transportation?

3. What is the difference between a bill of lading and a freight bill?

Answer 1

Answer 1: A Trunkline is a pipeline used to transport natural gas and crude oil throughout various countries or states.

Whereas A Gathering line is a comparatively smaller and shorter pipeline used to transport natural gas from a production facility to the main transmission pipeline or the Trunk Line.

So, in a way, Trunkline is dependent on the Gathering line for supply of the gas to be transported further and without a Trunk Line, the job done by Gathering line would be futile.

Conclusion: Both Trunk Line and Gathering Line are necessary to complete the gas and oil transportation successfully.