1.   Fortunately it still had its fields in the north, with their pipeline systems leading to Turkey and Syria.

2.   Amoco will construct and operate the gas plant, and Sonat will operate the pipeline system.

3.   ANR gave Coastal a pipeline system in the Midwest and provided coal and trucking assets.

4.   Almost all oil produced in the Caspian region that is sold on international markets now moves through the Russian pipeline system.

5.   All crude leaving Russia must still pass through a central state-owned pipeline system, and the government assigns oil companies quotas for access to it.

6.   Calgary, Alberta-based TransCanada operates a natural-gas pipeline system in Canada and the U.S.

7.   El Paso runs the biggest interstate pipeline system serving California, accounting for about half the capacity to the state.

8.   El Paso Energy doubled the size of its pipeline system by buying Tenneco Energy.

9.   For Midwest Gas, the program transfers its responsibility for low-profit distribution to other suppliers, while developing capacity release sales on its pipeline system.

10.   Gas has trouble getting to New England because the pipeline system forces it to travel so far from Canada or down south.