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Series of tubes - Wikipedia

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart made multiple references to "Techno" Ted Stevens's "series of tubes" description;[14][15][16][17] as a result, Stevens has become well known as the person who once headed the committee charged en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of…

with regulating the Internet. "I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was absolutely right in using the word 'tubes'," Stevens said to reporters in response to The Daily Show's coverage. When asked if he would think about going on the show to debate Jon Stewart, Stevens

replied, "I'd consider it." Google has included references to this in two of its products. Gears's about box once read "the gears that power the tubes" and Google Chrome had an about: Easter egg at the address about:internets which displayed a screensaver of tubes (if Windows

XP's SSPIPES.SCR is installed) with the page title "Don't Clog the Tubes!"[19][20] When "about:internets" was entered on a computer lacking that screensaver, the tab displayed a gray screen with the page title "The Tubes are Clogged!" This Easter egg was removed as of the

2.0.159.1 release.[21] The documentation for developing Chrome extensions includes a near-verbatim quote of the "series of tubes" paragraph when describing its chrome.storage class. The crude oil pipeline is privately owned by the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.

The Alaska corporation commonly known as Alyeska Pipeline Company was founded in 1970 to design, construct, operate and maintain a pipeline to transport oil from the fields on the North Slope of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 to an ice-free deep-water port in Valdez,

Alaska. The pipeline was built between March 1975 and June 1977, running from the North Slope fields at Prudhoe Bay to the Marine Terminal at Valdez on Prince William Sound. Alyeska then went on to operate and maintain TAPS. The first oil flowed into the pipeline on June 20,

1977, and the first tanker load departed from Valdez on August 1, 1977.
The Alyeska Pipeline Service Company was partially responsible for helping to respond to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In 2019, it was announced that BP would be selling its shares in Alyeska to Houston-based

Hilcorp Energy Company[4] The major owner of the company is BP with 46.93% of the shares dating from the acquisition of ARCO. The other group members are ConocoPhillips Transportation (shares formerly owned by ARCO and acquired by Phillips during its acquisition of ARCO Alaska

as part of the settlement between BP and the FTC[5]) (28.29%), Exxon Mobil (20.34%), Koch Alaska Pipeline Company (3.08%), and Unocal (1.36%). The government responsibility in regulating TAPS is managed through the Joint Pipeline Office ([1], JPO), a consortium of thirteen

federal and state agencies under the Department of the Interior. ARCO was formed by the merger of East Coast–based Atlantic Refining and California-based Richfield Oil Corporation in 1966; the company's name is an acronym (not initialism) of the two companies. A merger in 1969

brought in Sinclair Oil Corporation. On April 18, 2000, ARCO was purchased by BP America and completely merged into BP operations. There were two exceptions due to FTC requirements: ARCO Alaska was sold by BP to Phillips Petroleum, and ARCO Pipe Line Company was acquired by

TEPPCO, a subsidiary of Enterprise Products. ARCO as a subsidiary no longer exists. Enterprise Products acquired Enterprise GP Holdings in 2010. In 2005, Ralph S. Cunningham became CEO of the affiliated Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD), a transporter of natural gas and

crude oil for the next couple of years, before he was instead named president and CEO of Enterprise GP Holdings.[3]
During the second quarter of 2007, Enterprise GP Holdings acquired two major competitors as partners, Houston-based TEPPCO Partners LP (NYSE: TPP) and also 35

percent of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Equity LP (NYSE: ETE).[In January 2020, former Energy Secretary Rick Perry rejoined the company's board. Energy Transfer owns controlling interests in Sunoco LP, 100% of Sunoco Logistics Partners Operations L.P., the general partner

of USA Compression Partners L.P., 100% of Lake Charles LNG, which owns an LNG import terminal and regasification facility near Lake Charles, Louisiana, 9,400 miles (15,100 km) of natural gas transportation pipelines with approximately 21 billion cubic feet (590 million cubic

meters) per day of transportation capacity and 3 natural gas storage facilities in Texas and 12,200 miles (19,600 km) of interstate natural gas pipelines with approximately 10.3 billion cu ft (290 million m3) per day of transportation capacity, 36.4% of the Dakota Access

Pipeline and the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline, 60% of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, 50% of the Florida Gas Transmission pipeline, 100% of the Trunkline Pipeline, 100% of the Transwestern Pipeline, 100% of the Panhandle Eastern, 100% of the Sea Robin Pipeline, the Revolution

Pipeline, the Mariner East pipelines, and 32.6% of the Rover pipeline. In October 2018, the company was renamed as Energy Operating L.P. after it was acquired by Energy Transfer Equity.

LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES

SUBSIDIARIES OF ENERGY TRANSFER LP, a Delaware limited partnership:

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