- Welcome to the Underground Energy pipelines – oil, natural
gas, gasoline, and many chemicals as well – are part of the
subterranean world, along with water lines, sewer lines, storm
sewers, telephone lines, television cables, and many electric
lines. All these underground utilities provide services that
most of us who are no longer interested in living in caves would
not want to do without. Natural resources like crude oil and
natural gas, which are the raw material for energy the the world
consumes, are found in vastly different locations than where
they are processed or refined into fuels for our lives, and are
in different locations from where they are consumed. While many
forms of transportation are used to move this product to
marketplaces, pipelines remain the safest, most efficient and
economical way to move this natural resource. The United States
has the largest network of energy pipelines – both oil and
natural gas -- of any nation in the world. The oil pipeline
network alone in the U.S. is more t