21.   Testing requirements for larger pipeline systems were approved last year.

22.   Texaco Trading is in talks with Koch Industries Inc. to form a joint venture that would own the pipeline system.

23.   The agreement calls for the companies to each own one-third of the pipeline system, and for Amoco and Shell to jointly own the gas processing center.

24.   The Bush plan calls for extensive investment in the grid and the pipeline system, but both projects face regulatory, political and economic challenges.

25.   The company said it would test valves during a purging of the pipeline system before startup.

26.   The company has a sizable natural gas pipeline system, with large operations to transport gas to California and Florida, and natural gas storage facilities.

27.   The company operates two pipeline systems and gas gathering systems in four states.

28.   The company also will build a gas pipeline distribution system to move gas to other buyers.

29.   The pipeline system delivers oil to customers, primarily refiners, in the Texas City, Texas, area south of Houston.

30.   The rule for smaller pipeline systems is among four pipeline safety regulations issued in the past three weeks.