These companies will have a head start because they already possess significant infrastructure, such as pipelines and shipping terminals.
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Thousands of Iraqis have also been dispatched to guard softer targets such as oil pipelines.
Though they are relied upon for reconnaissance and surveillance missions, UAVs can be used in a wide variety of applications such as securing pipelines for the oil and gas industry, road patrol or even face recognition.
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Recently, the domain has also developed vector data sets that represent subsets of information extracted from the base sensor data such as roads, pipelines and waterways.
The parliament's rapporteur on the energy strategy - Polish centre-right MEP Lena Kolarska-Bobinska - said cross-border energy infrastructure such as grids and pipelines needed to be extended.
The best way to minimize leaks is to replace this aging network with modern pipelines such as the one planned for the Keystone XL, which use technology that instantly recognizes leaks and immediately shuts down oil flow.
Such an approach can help use less water, eliminating the needs for capital-heavy investment such as desalination projects or long water pipelines.
Infrastructural works such as the construction of ports, dredging, pipelines and oil or mineral extraction may also damage sites.
But pipelines at some firms, such as Merck, are distinctly empty these days.
Houston-based Kinder Morgan operates and owns approximately 24, 000 miles of natural gas pipelines, 8, 000 miles of pipelines that transport refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and more than 2, 000 miles of pipeline that transports crude oil.
The pipelines could also be used to deliver other fluids, such as fuels, as long as the material is resilient to whatever flows through it.
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Critics, such as the International Energy Agency, say Gazprom is spending too much on pipelines and non-core acquisitions, and not enough on developing new fields.
The largest issues facing pipeline safety today come from the actions of third parties completely unrelated to the actual operation of the pipeline, such as construction projects, excavation, utility work, planning and zoning decisions near pipelines, and even homeowners.
In addition to oil pipelines, MMP also stores biofuels, diesel, ethanol and ammonia, and provides ancillary services such as heating, blending and additive injecting for stored products.
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Companies are organized in such a way as to kill good ideas, not let them bloom, but at the same time they flood their pipelines with mediocre drug candidates in order to look busy, long before the development of those experimental medicines should have stopped.
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