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Oil Pipeline Profile
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FINANCIAL
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
INVENTORY
| Number
of FERC-regulated companies 2 |
87 |
101 |
130 |
150 |
158 |
161 |
160 |
U |
U |
184 |
U |
U |
U |
195 |
| 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 |
12,840 |
| Miles of pipeline (statute miles)b, all lines 4 |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
PERFORMANCE
| Intercity
ton-miles, total (millions) 5 |
229,000 |
431,000 |
588,200 |
584,100 |
591,400 |
601,100 |
619,200 |
616,500 |
619,800 |
623,000 |
635,500 |
622,800 |
U |
U |
| Crude oil |
N |
N |
362,600 |
334,800 |
322,600 |
335,900 |
338,300 |
337,400 |
334,100 |
336,200 |
U |
U |
U |
U |
| Petroleum
products |
N |
N |
225,600 |
249,300 |
268,800 |
265,200 |
280,900 |
279,100 |
285,700 |
286,800 |
U |
U |
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 |
| Average
length of haul (statute miles) |
|
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U |
U |
| Crude
oil 6 |
325 |
300 |
871 |
812 |
778 |
797 |
779 |
781 |
767 |
766 |
U |
U |
U |
U |
| Petroleum
products 6 |
269 |
357 |
414 |
387 |
414 |
402 |
413 |
413 |
420 |
418 |
U |
U |
U |
U |
SAFETY7
| Fatalities |
N |
4 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Injured
persons |
N |
21 |
15 |
7 |
c 7 |
11 |
13 |
5 |
6 |
20 |
4 |
10 |
0 |
5 |
| Incidents |
N |
351 |
246 |
180 |
245 |
188 |
194 |
171 |
153 |
168 |
147 |
(R) 130 |
144 |
127 |
KEY: FERC = Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; N = data do not exist; 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
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 www.ferc.fed.us/oil/oil_list.htm as of June 21, 2001.
2003: Ibid., Internet site www.ferc.gov/industries/oil/pipeline-list.asp as of Aug. 18, 2004.
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 www.bls.gov, SIC 46, as of Apr. 19, 1999.
1999-2001: Ibid., Internet site www.bls.gov/oes, SIC 46, as of June 30, 2003.
2002-03: Ibid, Internet site www.bls.gov/oes, NAICS 486100 and NAICS 486900, as of Aug.6, 2004.
4 Eno 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).
1980-2001: Ibid., Transpotation in America, 2002 (Washington, DC: 2002), p. 53, and similar tables in earlier editions.
61960-70: Ibid., Transportation In America 1999 (Washington, DC: 1999), p. 71.
1980-99: Ibid.,Transportation In America 2000 (Washington, DC: 2000), p. 51.
7 U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, available at Internet site ops.dot.gov/stats/lq_sum.htm as of Aug. 6, 2004, and earlier tables for 1970 and 1980 data.
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