"Increasing the nation's use of natural gas for electricity generation could result in adverse economic consequences, " the report said, noting that natural gas prices are fickle and that fuel switching on a large scale would require regulators to approve more pipeline and storage capacity.

FORBES: The Greening Of The Hill

One of the largest energy transactions in recent years, the deal is yet another expansion of an empire that the 66-year-old Kinder has built by cobbling together slow-growing, unsexy pipeline and storage assets dumped by the likes of Enron, Dynegy, Shell and ConocoPhillips, and focusing relentlessly on cutting costs.

FORBES: Kinder Morgan To Buy El Paso In $21B Wager On Natural Gas

We believe complexities associated with pipeline systems, gas storage and extraction, as well as declining production will drive natural gas prices up in the long-term.

FORBES: Andarko Fairly Valued If Nat Gas Prices Rise

Many MLPs have a degree of insulation from commodity price volatility thanks to long-term deals with customers for leasing out storage facilities and pipeline deals that are based on volume of throughput rather than the price of it.

FORBES: Pump Up Yields In Master Limited Partnerships

With their brand identity and some exciting new products in the pipeline, the high-capacity storage market looks like Iomega's to lose.

FORBES: Growing up

Associated with LOOP are Clovelly Dome, a 40-million-barrel salt cavern storage facility, and the Capline pipeline, which is the largest pipeline system delivering crude oil from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest.

FORBES: Gustav Rides Louisana's Energy Highway

Calgary-based Inter Pipeline is in the business of petroleum transportation, bulk liquid storage, and natural gas liquids extraction.

FORBES: More themes for the coming year

Semgroup handles more than 500, 000 barrels of crude oil a day in the U.S., operates two pipeline systems and has 6.7 million barrels of oil storage capacity.

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