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FINANCIAL

	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Operating revenues, total ($ millions)¹	895	1,396	7,548	8,506	8,676	9,077	8,637	8,632	8,579	9,067	8,958	9,066	U	U	U	U	U
FERC-regulated	770	1,188	6,340	7,164	7,353	7,751	7,310	7,278	7,212	7,645	7,551	7,649	U	U	U	U	U
Nonregulated	125	208	1,208	1,342	1,323	1,326	1,327	1,354	1,367	1,422	1,407	1,417	U	U	U	U	U

INVENTORY

	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Number of FERC-regulated companies²	87	101	130	150	158	161	160	U	U	184	U	U	U	195	195	197	U
Number of employees, pipeline companies^{a, 3}	23,100	17,600	21,300	18,500	17,100	15,100	14,500	14,200	13,800	13,060	13,230	13,680	12,360	12,500	12,840	13,040	12,770
Miles of pipeline (statute miles)^b, all lines⁴	190,944	218,671	218,393	208,752	190,350	181,912	177,535	179,873	178,648	177,463	176,996	U	U	U	U	U	U
Crude lines	141,085	146,275	129,831	118,805	103,277	97,029	92,610	91,523	87,663	86,369	85,480	U	U	U	U	U	U
Product lines	49,859	72,396	88,562	89,947	87,073	84,883	84,925	88,350	90,985	91,094	91,516	U	U	U	U	U	U

PERFORMANCE

	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Intercity ton-miles, total (millions)⁵	229,000	431,000	588,200	584,100	591,400	601,100	619,200	616,500	619,800	617,700	577,300	576,100	586,200	590,200	599,600	U	U
Crude oil	N	N	362,600	334,800	322,600	335,900	338,300	337,400	334,100	321,100	283,400	277,000	286,600	284,500	283,700	U	U
Petroleum products	N	N	225,600	249,300	268,800	265,200	280,900	279,100	285,700	296,600	293,900	299,100	299,600	305,700	315,900	U	U
Tons transported (millions)⁵	468.0	790.2	921.0	1,057.4	1,063.6	1,074.3	1,114.1	1,108.0	1,116.3	1,125.2	1,146.8	1,123.4	U	U	U	U	U
Average length of haul (statute miles)													U	U	U	U	U
Crude oil⁶	325	300	871	812	778	797	779	781	767	766	U	U	U	U	U	U	U
Petroleum products⁶	269	357	414	387	414	402	413	413	420	418	U	U	U	U	U	U	U

SAFETY⁷

	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Fatalities	N	4	4	3	1	3	5	0	2	4	1	0	1	0	5	2	0
Injured persons	N	21	15	7	^c7	11	13	5	6	20	4	10	0	5	16	2	2
Incidents	N	351	246	180	245	188	194	171	153	167	146	130	147	131	144	(R) 138	110

KEY: FERC = Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^a Includes companies whose pipelines carry crude petroleum, petroleum products, and nonpetroleum pipeline liquids.

^bRegulated plus unregulated mileage of crude oil trunk and gathering lines, plus refined oil trunk lines.

^c Does not include the 1,851 injuries that required medical treatment, caused by severe flooding near Houston, Texas, reported for October, 1994.

NOTE

The Interstate Commerce Committee regulated oil pipelines in the 1960s and 1970s.

SOURCES

¹ Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation In America 2002 (Washington, DC: 2002), pp. 38 and 39, and similar tables in earlier editions.

²1960-96: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, personal communication.

1999: Ibid., Internet site http://www.ferc.fed.us/oil/oil_list.htm as of June 21, 2001.

2003: Ibid., Internet site http://www.ferc.gov/industries/oil/gen-info/reg-central.asp as of Aug. 26, 2004.

2004: Ibid., Internet site http://www.ferc.gov/industries/oil/gen-info/reg-central.asp as of Mar. 16, 2005.

2005: Ibid., Internet site http://www.ferc.gov/industries/oil/gen-info/reg-central.asp as of Oct. 27, 2006.

³1960-80: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment, Hours and Earnings, United States, 1909-94 (Washington, DC: September 1994), SIC 46.

1990-1994: Ibid., Hours and Earnings, United States, 1988-1996 (Washington, DC: July 1996), SIC 46.

1995-98: Ibid., Internet site http://www.bls.gov, SIC 46, as of Apr. 19, 1999.

1999-2001: Ibid., Internet site http://www.bls.gov/oes, SIC 46, as of June 30, 2003.

2002-03: Ibid, Internet site http://www.bls.gov/oes, NAICS 486100 and NAICS 486900, as of Mar. 16, 2005.

2004-06: Ibid, Internet site http://www.bls.gov/oes, NAICS 486100 and NAICS 486900, as of Oct. 26, 2007.

⁴Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation In America 2002 (Washington, DC: 2002), pp. 58 and 59, and similar tables in earlier editions.

⁵ 1960-70: Ibid., Transportation in America, 1998 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 44 and Transportation in America, Supplement, 1999 (Washington, DC: 1999).

1980-98: Ibid., Transpotation in America, 2002 (Washington, DC: 2002), p. 53, and similar tables in earlier editions.

1999-2004: Association of Oil Pipe Lines, Shifts in Petroleum Transportation (Washington, DC: 2004), Internet site http://www.aopl.org/pubs/facts.html as of Oct. 27, 2006.

⁶1960-70: Ibid., Transportation In America 1999 (Washington, DC: 1999), p. 71.

1980-99: Ibid.,Transportation In America 2000 (Washington, DC: 2000), p. 51.

⁷U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, available at Internet site http://ops.dot.gov/stats/lq_sum.htm as of Sept. 26, 2007, and earlier tables for 1970 and 1980 data.

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