It is possible, in theory, that you'll find stringing existing programs together is not fast enough, but it's very rare that writing a new utility is faster than waiting for a slightly slow pipeline.
The paper analyze the reason of competition between China and Japan for petroleum pipeline by game theory and illustrate the economic and strategic background of the competition in Far East of Russia.
This paper presents the basic military logistics pipeline and analyses the military decision process from the perspective of engineering control theory.