Additionally, unlike West and Northern Africa, which have a complex network of pipelines, East Africa has only two.

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In addition to developing the new fields, it wants to build five new refineries, to generate more electricity and to build a network of gas pipelines in Brazil.

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The pipeline can import up to 1.2 million barrels per day and is connected through a network of crude oil pipelines to about one-half of U.S. refining capacity.

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The accident helped prompt a national debate over the adequacy of federal regulations for the nation's sprawling, 2.6-million-mile network of gas and hazardous liquid pipelines.

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It controls 20 percent of the world's natural gas reserves and operates the world's largest gas distribution network -- approximately 157, 000 kilometers of pipelines covering an area from Europe to the Far East, according to its Web site.

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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.

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And Bord Gais also owns the gas transmission pipelines to the northwest and south which are not affected, but the distribution network to the 10 towns feeding off those pipelines is part of the likely sale.

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Enterprise doesn't have any pipelines at all in that part of the country, but has a massive network for carrying natural gas liquids across the South and West.

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