Refineries are running close to capacity, pipelines are full and demand for tankers is rising.
Already behind schedule, the high-capacity pipeline is supposed to snake nearly 2,500 miles across the country, helping slake China's enormous thirst for energy, especially low-pollution energy like natural gas.
An iron and steel mill and a large oil refinery also are located in the city, and a large-capacity pipeline links the oil refinery with an offshore terminal.
Now the FCC has collected data on what these companies are doing, how these hidden costs are passed on to consumers and businesses and how their control of high-capacity pipelines is impacting other businesses and the overall economy.
Results show that the capacity of pipeline against thermal buckling increases with the burial depth or maximum uplift resistance and decreases with the OOS of pipeline or mobilization distance.
As expected, for a given annual capacity, onshore pipeline transport should be used for "short" distances, while shipping between harbours is employed for longer distances.
Results show that the capacity of pipeline against thermal buckling increases with the burial depth and decreases with the amplitude of initial imperfection.
The work presented in this paper describes the evaluation method for the compressive-bending plastic buckling capacity of pipeline steel tube based on strain-based design.
Enron, which began by owning pipelines carrying natural gas, is going to organise the trading of "bandwidth" (capacity) in pipelines that carry information, the fibre-optic cables of the Internet.
As expected, the base case illustrates that short distances and large capacities favour pipeline transport while ship transport is favoured by long distances and small capacities.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is investigating whether El Paso withheld capacity on pipelines to California when prices soared in 2000 and 2001.
