This year, Shell Pakistan invested in a network of storage facilities, road and rail transportation and pipelines to handle the estimated increase in Pakistan's petroleum product demand from 14 million tons today to 25 million tons by 2000.
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.