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Oil Pipeline Profile

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Financial	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Operating revenues ($ millions)
FERC-regulated	^d770	^d1,188	^d6,340	^R,d7,164	^R,d7,353	^R7,751	^R7,310	^R,d7,278	^R,d7,212	^d7,645
Nonregulated	125	208	1,208	1,342	1,323	^R1,326	^R1,327	^R1,354	^R1,367	1,422
Total	895	1,396	7,548	^R8,506	^R8,676	^R9,077	^R8,637	^R8,632	^R8,579	9,067

Inventory	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Number of FERC-regulated companies	^e87	^e101	^e130	^e150	^e158	^e161	^e160	U	U	^f184
Number of employees, pipeline companies^a	^g23,100	^g17,600	^g21,300	^h18,500	^h17,100	^R,i15,100	ⁱ14,500	ⁱ14,200	ⁱ13,800	^j13,060
Miles of pipeline (statute miles)^b
Crude lines^k	141,085	146,275	129,831	118,805	^R103,277	^R97,029	92,610	91,523	87,663	86,369
Product lines	49,859	72,396	88,562	89,947	^R87,073	^R84,883	84,925	88,350	90,985	91,094
All lines	190,944	218,671	218,393	208,752	^R190,350	^R181,912	177,535	179,873	178,648	177,463

Performance	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Intercity ton-miles (millions)
Crude oil^l	N	N	362,600	334,800	322,600	335,900	338,300	337,400	334,100	336,200
Petroleum products	N	N	225,600	249,300	268,800	265,200	280,900	279,100	285,700	286,800
Total	^m229,000	^m431,000	588,200	584,100	591,400	601,100	619,200	616,500	619,800	623,000
Tons transported (millions)	^R,l468	^R,l790.2	^R921	1,057.4	^R1,063.6	^R1,080.6	^R1,114.1	^R1,108.0	^R1,116.3	1,125.20
Average length of haul (statute miles)
Crude oil	ⁿ325	ⁿ300	^o871	^R,o812	^R,o778	^R,o797	^o779	^R,o781	^R,o767	^o766
Petroleum products	269	357	414	^R387	^R414	^R402	^R413	^R413	^R420	418

Safety	1960	1970	1980	1990	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Fatalities^p	N	4	4	3	1	3	5	0	2	4
Injuried Persons	N	21	15	7	^c7	11	13	5	6	20
Incidents	N	351	246	180	^R245	188	^R194	171	153	168

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.

^b Regulated 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: Unless otherwise noted, refer to chapter tables for sources.

^d Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation In America 2000, with historical compendium 1939-1999 (Washington, DC: 2000), pp. 4-7.

^e Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, personal communication.

^f Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Internet site www.ferc.fed.us/oil/oil_list.htm as of June 21, 2001.

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

^h Ibid., Employment, Hours and Earnings, United States, 1988-1996 (Washington, DC: July 1996), SIC 46.

ⁱ Ibid., Internet site www.bls.gov as of Apr. 19, 1999.

^j Ibid., Internet site http://www.bls.gov/oes/1999/oesi2_46.htm as of July 3, 2001.

^k Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation In America 2000, with historical compendium 1939-1999 (Washington, DC: 2000), p. 44.

^l Ibid., pp. 28, 29.

^m Ibid., Transportation in America, 1998 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 44 and Transportation in America, Supplement, 1999 (Washington, DC: 1999).

ⁿ Ibid., p. 71.

^o Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation In America 2000, with historical compendium 1939-1999 (Washington, DC: 2000), p. 51.

^p U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, available at Internet site http://ops.dot.gov/stats/lq_sum.htm as of May 31, 2002.