The biggest threat might be a plunge in energy prices, which could lead to less demand for pipeline services.
When not on the hunt for pipeline assets, Duncan pursued other big game.
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The other would carry about 193, 000 barrels of condensate daily to Alberta where it is used to thin petroleum for pipeline shipping.
For months pipeline executives placed bids on every route, talking over their progress each week.
"This project has undergone a rigorous review and passed, " Steve Sullivan, a spokesman for Millennium Pipeline Co.
It is no wonder that they are one of the three social entrepreneur finalists for the Pipeline Fellowship pool.
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Kogan needs to level with investors, clearly setting out the company's prospects and outlining the worst-case scenarios for its pipeline.
Planning applications for the pipeline and the mine at Sneaton, near Whitby, are expected by the end of the year.
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And it agrees that the government should help to pay for a pipeline to bring Alaska's vast (and clean) natural-gas reserves to market.
The rising supply in the U.S. could doom plans for a pipeline to ship gas from Canada and Prudhoe Bay to Chicago, Ineson said.
In addition to producing oil, Kenya may also prove to be a natural location for a pipeline to transport oil from southern Sudan to the coast.
Of course, the most obvious in that environment, where these production volumes are actually going up, is the chance for a pipeline owner to take utilization of a pipeline from 40% to 42% to 45%.
Eni also shares control of one of the largest pipelines bringing Russian gas into Europe and recently announced plans for a pipeline across the Black Sea to Bulgaria that will solidify Gazprom's hold on the European energy market.
Kinder says he's looking for other pipeline partnerships to buy, and Kinder Morgan is expanding into terminals that handle coal and other dry bulk materials, hoping to capitalize on long-term trends such as the shift by electric utilities away from Appalachian coal toward cleaner- burning western coal.
With Connecticut planning on tearing up 900 miles of ground for gas pipeline in coming years, and Hartford eyeing a project with 160 miles of wastewater and sewer separation, there may be a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to piggyback on other infrastructure projects which involve crossing roads and other infrastructure.
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The argument is that being able to control the data rates for different types of content, choking the pipeline for individual users or at particular times, will allow allocation of bandwidth to more urgent applications.
And obviously there are preplanning for a lot of that -- is in the pipeline for a whole host of contingencies.
The next big hope for Wyeth's pipeline is a treatment for Alzheimer's being developed with Ireland's Elan Pharmaceuticals.
On the inside, GE is looking for ways to reduce cost radically and to mold itself as an innovation pipeline for others.
For example, a news organization may want to have a "high priority" transcoding pipeline for breaking news stories, or a User-Generated Content website may want to have separate pipelines for low, medium, and high resolution outputs to target different devices.
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Construction numbers for individual cities are limited, but some 40, 000 off-campus beds are in the pipeline for 2013, according to ARA. The firm tracks 71 projects under way, up from about 40 last year.
The Legislature is eager for a new gas pipeline, and lawmakers have argued for years the tax system needs to be revamped.
Generally, the participants at the FERC hearings all expressed a preference for better sharing of information concerning pipeline capacity scheduled for power generation, individual power plant burn rates, fast notification of major operational changes, and coordination of maintenance work to both systems.
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One positive caveat: Prices for Canadian Heavy are discounted now because of the shortage of pipeline capacity for carrying heavy oil sands crude out of western Canada.
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Next up: new optical-switching technology, an undersea fiber pipeline for international traffic and overseas acquisitions.
It has more than 21 designs available presently and another 100 in the pipeline for 2012.
Plans to restore the 18th Century Llanelly House have been in the pipeline for a decade.
Big Pharma is looking toward the biotech sector to feed the new pipeline for drug discovery.
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Over the years, that's become a giant pipeline for putting cash into people's pockets.
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