November 2024, Vol. 251, No. 11
Features
500 Report – Not Much Shuffling on List of Top Pipelines
Pipeline & Gas Journal staff report
(P&GJ) – The list of companies leading the way in Pipeline & Gas Journal’s 43rd annual 500 Report will certainly be familiar to long-time midstream observers, with a little bit of shuffling in rankings occurring between the 2023 and 2024 editions of the publication.
In fact, when it comes to the number of customers among gas distribution utilities, no gas utility managed to break into the Top 10 for the first time, with most companies showing similar numbers compared to last year.
Southern California Gas (SoCalGas), which has topped the list for years, reported 6,163,251 customers, a gain of 32,744 over last year. Pacific Gas & Electric (4,605,628 customers this year) remained in second with a slight gain, while CenterPoint and AGL Resources swapped the third and fourth spot with 4,300,000 and 4,208,000 customers, respectively.
The leading gas transmission pipelines list, compiled in the order of total miles operated, revealed similar results to previous year with DCP Midstream (48,000), Northern Natural Gas (14,244), Tennessee Gas Pipeline (11,756), El Paso Natural Gas (10,252), Columbia Gas Transmission (9,910) and Transcontinental Gas Pipeline (9,568) still occupying the top five.
Some re-shuffling took place among liquids transmission pipeline companies when reported, based on total barrels delivered. Plains Oryx Permian took over the top spot with 1,408,932 barrels.
Marathon Pipe Line followed with 1,255,726 barrels, followed by Enbridge Energy (1,172,939), Colonial Pipeline (941,375) and ExxonMobil Pipeline (730,195) and Energy Transfer GC NGL (617,944).
How Data Are Compiled
Each year, Pipeline & Gas Journal’s 500 Report features the industry’s most comprehensive listing of U.S. energy pipeline systems. As with past years, it ranks the nation’s gas distribution, gas transmission and liquids pipelines companies.
Gas distribution companies are listed by the number of customers. Gas transmission companies are listed by miles of pipe, and liquids pipelines are in the order of total crude oil and products delivered.
Additional statistical data for the report are based on operating revenues, gas sold, total throughput of natural gas, product deliveries and miles of mains and service lines. About 90% of the data is based on information from calendar year 2022, completed through direct company contacts and statistics collected from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Other data are taken from individual companies’ data as reported to P&GJ, annual reports and P&GJ research.
Every effort is made to ensure that each company’s information is accurate, but some companies are no longer required to report statistical data to FERC, while others did not respond to our inquiries. As a result, some of the data are based on the latest figures available. In the event your company’s information needs to be revised, let us know as soon as possible. We also need to know of any changes of address, contact information, mergers and acquisitions.
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