Oil Pipeline Profile
Oil Pipeline Profile
Financial | 1960 | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
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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 |
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Number of FERC-regulated companies | e87 | e101 | e130 | e150 | e158 | e161 | e160 | U | U | f184 |
Number of employees, pipeline companiesa | 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 linesk | 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 |
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Intercity ton-miles (millions) | ||||||||||
Crude oill | 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 |
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Fatalitiesp | 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.