Regulation of Commodity Pipelines
Author: Canada. National Energy Board
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 4
ISBN-13: 9780662377603
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Author: Canada. National Energy Board
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 4
ISBN-13: 9780662377603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Canadian Transport Commission. Commodity Pipeline Transport Committee
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Published: 1983
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1428976973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: U.S. Department of Transportation
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-06-03
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1626363765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes the identification number 60 indicate a toxic substance or a flammable solid, in the molten state at an elevated temperature? Does the identification number 1035 indicate ethane or butane? What is the difference between natural gas transmission pipelines and natural gas distribution pipelines? If you came upon an overturned truck on the highway that was leaking, would you be able to identify if it was hazardous and know what steps to take? Questions like these and more are answered in the Emergency Response Guidebook. Learn how to identify symbols for and vehicles carrying toxic, flammable, explosive, radioactive, or otherwise harmful substances and how to respond once an incident involving those substances has been identified. Always be prepared in situations that are unfamiliar and dangerous and know how to rectify them. Keeping this guide around at all times will ensure that, if you were to come upon a transportation situation involving hazardous substances or dangerous goods, you will be able to help keep others and yourself out of danger. With color-coded pages for quick and easy reference, this is the official manual used by first responders in the United States and Canada for transportation incidents involving dangerous goods or hazardous materials.
Author: Texas
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 588
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 40
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Terkelsen
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChapter 1: Workable Competition and Allocative Efficiency in Deregulated U.S. Petroleum Pipeline Markets: Since 1990, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has quietly and gradually removed price controls from oil pipeline segments through its ``market-based rate" program. Outside of individual rate cases, the FERC has not reviewed the success of this program in terms of efficiency improvement. I argue that, despite the lack of quantity data, market power and efficiency in transportation markets can be detected using available commodity price and sales data. Using a novel dataset linking oil pipeline rates and services to wholesale refined products prices, I study (1) the rate effects of oil pipeline deregulation, (2) whether deregulated pipelines exercise market power, and (3) whether deregulated rate signals result in improved allocative efficiency on deregulated lines. I find that deregulated carriers gradually increased rates up to 10 percent, or an average 5.7 percent, over the first five years. However, because commodity prices remained constant and sales increased in destination markets, the higher rates do not lead to the conclusion that firms set their deregulated rates supracompetitively. Instead, I offer evidence that rate deregulation led to efficiency improvement by allowing more higher-valued commodities to pass through the capacity constrained pipeline network in both Chicago and the broader U.S. pipeline market.Chapter 2: Spillovers of Mixed Regulation: Evidence from U.S. Petroleum Pipeline Markets: U.S. regulatory policy of oil pipeline markets produces mixed markets where regulated firms compete with unregulated firms. In this paper, I present a novel 35-year monthly panel of pipeline services including commodity-specific refined products consumption, refinery production, and waterborne movements. Using these data, I analyze two types of spillovers in partially regulated pipeline markets: spillovers within firm and spillovers across firms. I find when capacity-constrained firms are only partially deregulated, they set rates above the competitive level. Similarly, when deregulated firms compete against regulated firms, they can monopolize residual capacity in the market and reduce market efficiency.Chapter 3: Regulatory Threat Under Administrative Litigation: Though firm behavior under price regulation has been studied extensively in economics, law, and policy, few opportunities arise to study firm behavior under just the threat of such regulation, a potentially effective force alone. This paper extends the Glazer (1992) model of regulatory threat to the administrative litigation setting where bureaucratic commissioners, not legislators, decide whether to regulate rates of service providers in disputes between stakeholding parties. I find that firms should decrease their rates when they believe their regulators would rule against them in a complaint case. I empirically test the predictions of this model using FERC's 2012 challenge to deregulated rates, a perceived shift in its regulatory stance, but find that firms appear to increase prices in their most vulnerable markets.
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Published: 1998
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSTB is an independent agency administratively housed within the Department of Transportation. It is responsible for the economic regulation of interstate surface transportation to ensure that competitive and efficient transportation services are provided to meet the needs of shippers, receivers, and consumers. While STB is primarily responsible for railroads, it also regulates pipelines that provide interstate transportation of commodities other than oil, gas, or water. This oversight involves ensuring that pipelines fulfill their "common carrier" obligations. These obligations include (1) charging reasonable rates; (2) providing rates and services to all upon reasonable request; (3) not unfairly discriminating among shippers; (4) establishing classifications, rules, and practices that are reasonable; and (5) interchanging traffic with other carriers or modes of transportation.
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Published: 1980*
Total Pages: 44
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