Like a once-quiet neighborhood cut up by an expressway and laced with off ramps, northeastern forests are changing because of the pipelines crisscrossing them amid the region's gas drilling boom, experts say.
Moving the finished ethanol around the country would be challenging, too, because ethanol corrodes today's pipelines.
Natural-gas pipelines cannot be used because hydrogen makes the steel tubing brittle and attacks the welds.
That is because supplying them requires investment in pipelines and port equipment.
North African oil and gas are especially important to Europe because the only other place with pipelines running into Europe is Russia, and no one likes relying on Russia for energy.
MLPs, especially those with pipelines, are also attractive because of their high tax-sheltered yields.
But, of course, the progress of approving trans-border pipelines has been housed, if you will, in the State Department for quite a long time under administrations that have been both Democratic and Republican because of the international nature of those pipelines, the fact that they cross international borders.
First, Europe does not like relying on Russia for natural gas because that gas has to come through Ukrainian pipelines.
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That might be especially true for banks whose revenue pipelines have been squeezed in part because of new rules and regulations.
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For years the company liked having control and access to the maze of pipelines that crisscross the continental shelf because it made it cheaper to bring oil and gas to market from the deepwater fields.
These companies will have a head start because they already possess significant infrastructure, such as pipelines and shipping terminals.
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Oil in the Caspian region is now channeled principally through pipelines to Russian Black Sea ports, and Moscow wants to keep it that way, because that means it controls the flow.
There is considerable worry by many observers of the gas industry that federal figures of overall greenhouse-gas-emissions reductions may be misleading because they fail to account for the impact of natural gas that leaks into the atmosphere from drilling and pipelines.
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For example, multiple pipelines could go on one right of way, or wind turbines might go on land already barren because of old coal mining.
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