Table 6 Pipeline: 1999 Data (unless noted) Oil1 " Crude lines: 86,000 miles, 336 billion ton-miles" " Product lines: 91,000 miles, 287 billion ton-miles" Natural gas (estimates)2 " Transmission: 254,000 miles of pipe" " Distribution: 981,000 miles of pipe, 86 companies," "  142,000 employees" "1 Eno Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America, 1999 (Washington, DC: 2000). " "2 American Gas Association, Gas Facts (Washington, DC: 1999)." "SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2000 (Washington, DC: 2001)."