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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 |
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
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 companiesa, 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
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
Fatalities |
N |
4 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
Injured
persons |
N |
21 |
15 |
7 |
c 7 |
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.
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.
2 1960-96: 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.
3 1960-80: 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.
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).
1980-98: 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.
6 1960-70: 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, 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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