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Alaska
Forum for Environmental Responsibility,
How Much is Enough? Estimated Industry Profits from Alaska
North Slope Production and Associated Pipeline Operations,
1993-1998 (1998) - http://www.alaskaforum.org/
This
report presents a model to calculate industry profits from
North Slope operations to understand better if participating
oil companies have been paying the state the appropriate
level of royalties and taxes. While not answering that question,
the report recommends more complete financial information
available to the public.
Association
of Oil Pipelines, Shifts
in Petroleum Transportation (2002) http://www.aopl.org/pubs/2002/Shift%20Report%202000.pdf
Compiled
annually since 1979, these data show the increasing reliance
on pipelines to transport crude oil and refined products
in the U.S., largely at the expense of tanker ship and barge
transportation. Many environmentalists hail this shift,
believing that it decreases the risk of oil spills, unaware
of the far worse record of pipelines and even worse regulatory
and industry practices.
Merton
Miller, University of Chicago,
The Private Interest and the Public Interest and Direct
Testimony before the Illinois Commerce Commission (1997)
- 00100
This
late Nobel laureate in Economics (1990) and University of
Chicago professor became involved in a rural Illinois community's
fight against a proposed new crude oil pipeline (it would
have crossed his mother-in-law's farm) and provides here
a compelling case why new pipelines do not affect the retail
price of fuels, which instead are set by the world oil market
prices. He thus debunks one of the key promises by pipeline
companies that consumers will benefit from lower costs if
allowed to route a pipeline through their communities.
Oil
& Gas Journal
Pipeline
Company Profits, 1980-present - 00040
These
tables from the Oil & Gas Journal annual cover articles,
"Pipeline Economics" (usually in September),
show by company and industry the operating results of
interstate oil and natural gas pipeline companies, including
miles of pipelines, deliveries, trunkline traffic and
fiscal results. Readers can learn from here about the
profitability of individual companies and the industry
in general.
Pipeline
Economics, 1990-present - 00042
These
are the complete articles, not just tables, with extensive
narrative about conditions and trends in the pipeline
industry ‚ important information to know to understand
the business of pipelines.
Pipeline
Economics, 1980-89 - 00043
Same
as above.
Pipe
Line & Gas Industry,
Pipeline Construction, by year (2001) - 00041
These
articles and tables from Pipe Line & Gas Industry (no
longer published but archived and still available online)
provide a record of pipeline construction from 1948 to 2000.
For example, they show that the peak decades for oil pipeline
construction was the 1950s through the 1970s and for natural
gas pipelines the 1950s and 1960s. It helps readers understand
the problem of repair and replacement as the U.S. pipeline
system ages and deteriorates ‚ and lack of an OPS program
to address it.
U.S.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
U.S.
Oil and Gas Pipeline Mileage http://www.bts.gov/publications/nts/html/table_01_10.html
This
table provides up-to-date information about total U.S.
mileage of oil and natural gas pipelines, 1960 to the
present.
Oil
Pipeline Profile (2002) http://www.bts.gov/publications/nts/html/table_oil_pipeline_profile.html
This
table reports a limited number of statistics about the
oil pipeline industry. One revealing statistic is the
declining number of oil pipeline employees, which has
fallen by 39 percent from 1980 to 1999, while deliveries
held steady and revenues increased. This helps readers
understand the declining maintenance and safety effort
by the industry.
Natural
Gas Pipeline Profile (2002) http://www.bts.gov/publications/nts/html/table_natural_gas_pipeline_profile.html
This
table of natural gas pipeline industry shows a similar
decline in number of employees since 1980 while mileage,
deliveries and revenues have increased. This too is an
indication of the declining maintenance and safety effort
by the industry.
U.S.
National Petroleum Council
Petroleum
Liquids Transportation (1989) - 00141
Published
by a petroleum industry advisory committee to the U.S.
Department of Energy, this nearly 300-page report is Volume
V of an overall report describing the capabilities of
the U.S. petroleum industry. This volume describes the
petroleum logistics system and pipeline, marine, rail
and truck transportation of petroleum. Although somewhat
dated (and has not been updated), it is a useful primer
to how all modes of transporting petroleum operate.
Petroleum
Storage and Transportation: Executive Summary (1989)
- 00141
Volume
I of the overall report is a 70-page executive summary
that provides an overview on the capabilities of the U.S.
petroleum industry. Although dated, this is a good place
to start to understand how this industry operates.
Petroleum
Pipeline System Profiles, Companies A-Mi (1988) - 00098
Preceding
the Petroleum Storage and Transportation report by a year,
this is the first half of a 575-page compilation of 98
oil pipeline company profiles and their capabilities.
It includes basic company information, pipeline system
maps, and pipeline characteristics, including current
and potential capacities. While many of the companies
no longer exist or are reconfigured because of extensive
acquisitions by such industry newcomers as Kinder Morgan
Energy Partners, the pipeline networks are still in place
and operating. Unfortunately, there has been no new edition
of these profiles.
Petroleum
Pipeline System Profiles, Companies M-Yi (1988) - 00093
This
is the second half of oil company profiles and their capabilities.
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