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NAICS 486210

Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas

Key Figures

Establishments
1,908
Census CBP · 2023
Employment
24,190
Census CBP · 2023
Market size
$38.3B
Census Economic Census · 2022

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Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the pipeline transportation of natural gas from processing plants to local distribution systems. This industry includes the storage of natural gas because the storage is usually done by the pipeline establishment and because a pipeline is inherently a network in which all the nodes are interdependent.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2017 NAICS Definitions. Public domain.

Which code does this activity belong in?

Pipeline transportation of natural gas differs from crude oil pipeline transportation in that it covers establishments moving natural gas from processing plants to local distribution systems, including associated storage operations. The boundary separates natural gas pipelines from other pipeline transportation serving different products; establishments transporting refined petroleum products, chemicals, or other commodities by pipeline are classified elsewhere in other pipeline transportation.

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