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Natural Gas Pipeline Profile

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Financial ($ millions)	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Transmission pipeline companies
Total operating revenues^a	^e3,190	^e5,928	^f41,604	^f21,756	^f13,841	^f12,092	^f12,050	^f10,339	^f9,450	^f14,097
Total operating expenses^a	2,698	5,088	39,709	19,484	11,333	9,534	9,603	7,862	^R6,875	10,176
Operation and maintenance	2,095	4,203	36,480	17,058	8,389	6,680	6,802	5,381	4,260	6,120
Operation expenses	2,031	4,094	36,075	16,429	7,811	6,121	6,314	4,975	3,909	5,640
Maintenance expenses	64	109	405	629	578	558	488	406	351	480
Taxes (federal, state, local)^b	319	376	1,991	1,245	1,757	1,582	1,643	1,531	^R1,560	2,427
Federal taxes	223	202	1,327	768	1,172	1,048	1,085	1,076	1,035	5,329
State and local taxes	96	174	664	477	585	534	558	455	525	791
Distribution pipeline companies
Total operating revenues^a	N	N	^e14,013	^g18,750	^g20,911	^g19,421	^g30,407	^{R, g}30,864	^{R, g}28,182	^g29,713
Total operating expenses^a	N	N	13,263	17,125	19,025	17,402	27,917	27,445	^R25,668	25,941
Operation and maintenance	N	N	11,791	14,544	15,868	14,170	23,301	23,155	^R21,396	21,360
Operation expenses	N	N	11,539	14,020	15,279	13,575	22,433	22,388	20,710	19,295
Maintenance expenses	N	N	252	524	589	596	868	767	687	2,066
Taxes (federal, state, local)^b	N	N	1,136	1,625	1,917	1,888	2,668	2,415	^R2,524	2,488
Federal taxes	N	N	351	581	703	720	1,041	849	1,250	934
State and local taxes	N	N	785	1,045	1,228	1,168	1,627	1,566	1,274	1,554
Investor-owned, total industry^c
Total operating revenues	N	N	^h85,918	^h66,027	^h63,446	^h58,434	^h63,600	ⁱ62,660	^{R, j}57,548	^j66,320
Total operating expenses^a	N	N	81,789	60,137	56,789	50,800	56,695	55,422	^R51,075	56,967
Operation and maintenance	N	N	74,508	51,628	45,593	40,041	45,785	44,851	^R41,360	45,368
Operation expenses	N	N	73,288	49,718	43,879	37,998	43,742	43,258	39,971	42,423
Maintenance expenses	N	N	1,220	1,910	2,074	2,043	2,043	1,593	1,390	2,946
Taxes (federal, state, local)^b	N	N	4,847	4,957	6,613	6,186	6,362	6,384	^R5,293	6,594
Federal taxes	N	N	2,327	2,038	3,112	2,723	2,932	3,066	2,631	3,233
State and local taxes	N	N	2,520	2,919	3,491	3,463	3,430	3,318	2662	3,361

Inventory	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Pipeline mileage
Transmission	^k183,700	^k252,200	^l266,500	^l280,100	^l268,300	^l268,300	^l259,300	^l251,100	^{R, l}255,800	^l263,300
Distribution	391,400	594,800	701,800	837,300	919,300	936,800	959,500	957,100	^R999,000	1,045,900
Field and gathering	55,800	66,300	83,500	89,500	70,400	60,400	57,500	43,000	^R40,200	36,100
Total	630,950	913,267	1,051,774	1,206,894	1,257,971	1,262,152	1,276,315	1,251,200	^R1,295,000	1,345,400
Number of employees
Gas utility industry totals^d	^m206,400	^m211,700	^m215,400	ⁿ204,200	ⁿ187,200	ⁿ179,000	ⁿ179,000	ⁿ154,600	^{R, n}154,200	ⁿ149,400
Investor-owned companies^d	N	N	202,700	192,100	175,800	168,100	163,500	145,400	^R142,400	137,600
Transmission pipeline companies	31,400	32,400	45,200	37,400	31,000	28,000	32,300	27,500	28,400	32,300
Distribution pipeline companies	N	N	52,100	64,700	62,400	61,600	79,700	75,000	^R71,300	71,500
Integrated pipeline companies	N	N	53,200	39,900	39,400	36,400	12,700	12,300	^R12,000	6,300
Combination pipeline companies	N	N	52,200	50,100	42,900	42,100	38,700	30,600	^R30,700	27,500
Number of interstate natural gas pipeline companies	^o87	^o89	^o91	^o132	^p150	^p133	^p138	^q86	^q86	^r184

Performance (million cubic ft.)	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Marketed production, total	^s12,771,038	^s21,920,642	^s20,179,724	^s18,593,792	^s19,709,525	^s19,506,474	^t19,812,241	^t19,866,093	^R,t19,961,348	^t19,804,848
Delivered to consumers, total	10,382,681	19,018,462	18,216,233	16,818,882	18,898,635	19,660,161	20,005,508	20,004,012	19,469,047	19,895,308
Consumed, total	11,966,537	21,139,386	19,877,293	18,715,090	20,707,717	21,580,665	21,966,616	21,958,660	^R21,277,205	21,619,616
Gas used as a pipeline fuel, total	347,075	722,166	634,622	659,816	685,362	700,335	711,446	751,470	635,477	645,319

Safety	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Fatalities^u	N	26	15	6	21	18	48	10	^R18	19
Injured persons	N	233	177	69	113	53	114	72	^R76	93
Incidents	N	1,077	1,524	198	222	161	187	175	^R236	173

KEY: N = data do not exist; R = revised.

^a Does not add due to omission of line from source table for depreciation and other noncash expenses.

^b Figures obtained by addition/subtraction and may not appear directly in data source.

^c Industry total includes integrated and combination company totals in addition to distribution and transmission company totals.

^d Number of employees in investor-owned companies is the sum of employees in distribution, tranmission, integrated and combination companies.

NOTES: Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

Gas utility industry totals include employees in privately owned companies.

SOURCES:

^e American Gas Association, Gas Facts, 1979 (Arlington, VA), table 134.

^f Ibid., Gas Facts, (Arlington, VA: Annual issues), table 12-2, and similar tables in earlier editions.

^g Ibid., table 12-1, and similar tables in earlier editions.

^h Ibid., table 12-1.

ⁱ Ibid., Unpublished data and personal communication, Aug. 17, 2000.

^j Ibid., Gas Facts, 2000, table 12-1,12-2,12-3, and 12-4.

^k Ibid., Gas Facts, 1979 (Arlington, VA ), table 44.

^l Ibid., Gas Facts, (Arlington, VA: Annual issues), table 5-1, table 5-2, and similar tables in earlier editions.

^m Ibid., Gas Facts, 1979 (Arlington, VA ), table 153.

ⁿ Ibid., Gas Facts, (Arlington, VA: Annual issues), table 14–2, and similar tables in earlier editions.

^o U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Statistics of Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Companies (Washington, DC: Annual issues), preface.

^p Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, personal communication.

^q American Gas Association, personal communication, Aug. 17, 2000.

^r Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, http://www.ferc.gov/gas/pipecomp.htm as of Jan. 2, 2002.

^s U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Natural Gas Annual, 1998 (Washington, DC: October 1999), table 98. Internet site http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/natural_gas/data_publications/natural_gas_annual/nga.html as of Aug. 9, 2000.

^t Ibid., Natural Gas Annual 2000, table 1.

^u U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, DPS-35, Internet site http://ops.dot.gov/stats.htm as of Jan. 2, 2002.