These firms, which specialise in moving lots of molecules along short segments of the pipeline for other people, rather than taking a few of them all the way through it on their own, are the seeds of what might turn out to be a whole new way of doing business.Big pharma (and, for that matter, small pharma too) could, in principle, contract out or buy in almost all of its research and development.
That segment of the pipeline would run through Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Morris, Somerset and Sussex Counties.
For long pipelines, construction is done in segments so that one segment of the pipeline is completed before construction proceeds to the next.
Consumers were already paying for repairs that were to have been performed on a segment of the pipeline a few miles from the section that exploded, documents show.
Under threat of having his land in central South Dakota expropriated through eminent domain, he initially signed a deal with TransCanada to accept a 1.5-mile segment of the pipeline.
It also suggested it would press ahead with the last segment of the pipeline, from Oklahoma to Texas, which may not require the State Department's approval because it does not cross an international frontier.
On the unseasonably warm Saturday, people were chopping wood and setting up tents at the encampment, which is more than a mile from a Missouri river reservoir where the final large segment of the pipeline is yet to be completed, due to the corps consulting with the tribe.
The company is currently awaiting a US presidential permit to increase flow through the border segment of the pipeline, a delay that the State Department has called procedural.
The now-defunct company Consolidated Western created that segment of the pipeline back in 1956 by welding together discarded bits of other pipes, the report revealed.
Cunha also said that while the company does not disclose information on those parts of the pipeline likely to release the greatest amount of oil for security reasons, Keystone XL would be "designed to shut down automatically on an indication of low pressure in a segment of the pipeline".
In an interim order last December, the regulatory commission said the pipeline companies had not proved there was sufficient demand for new gas supplies near segments of the proposed pipeline in Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
