Mr. Cummings said he hoped that the test would clear the way for the resumption of operations in the pipeline in "the next few weeks".
Shell wants to sign an agreement to build the pipeline "in the next few months," said Martin Bradshaw, president of the Shell Exploration & Production Companies in China.
Lowe's also said it is taking a $48 million charge for canceling plans to open about 80 stores that had been in the pipeline in the next few years.
Look for China to put up $1 billion or so to build a pipeline in the next couple years.
Gunn added that after launching a number of partnerships this year, they have "premium complementary software companies coming down the pipeline in the next two weeks as well as exciting new types of plug-ins launching at the beginning of August".
A final decision by President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry is expected on the Keystone XL Pipeline in the next few months.
The Enbridge Company is also proposing to match that pipeline with a re-route of Line 3, carrying possibly another 400,000- 800,000 barrels of oil, and most likely another two pipelines, in the next decade.
Analysts and Silicon Valley experts said new Apple products were in the pipeline for the next few years, but the company's success beyond that was already being debated.
Uzi Landau, Israel's infrastructure minister, told Army Radio on Wednesday that there was enough gas in the pipeline for the next few days.
The withdrawal of Baycol was the latest in a string of problems that leave Bayer with few promising new drugs on the market and even fewer in the pipeline for the next few years.
An Obama administration decision on the Keystone XL pipeline is expected in the next several months, after more than two years of delays, and even an approval would then probably be resisted in American courts.
