Introduction


	Introduction
	Is there a pipeline near you?
	Why are pipelines important to you?
	Pipelines, Ships, Barges, Trains and Trucks …

Energy to You

Everyone knows where their local gas station is, your home may be warmed by heating oil or natural gas and many homes use natural gas for cooking. But did you know that those products – gasoline, home heating oil, and natural gas – travel long distances from refineries and natural gas plants to communities all over the nation through underground pipelines?

These pipelines are one of the unsung heroes among the many utilities – water, sewer, telephone lines, oil pipelines and natural gas pipelines – tucked under our streets, through neighborhoods and communities, and stretched across farms, forests, and deserts. These same pipelines provide fuel to generate electricity and fertilizers to increase crop production. Pipelines also collect crude oil from many rural, and some not so rural, areas and deliver that crude oil to refineries and chemical plants to create all the products that come from petroleum and petrochemicals.