ANR Pipeline delivers gas from

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, the Oklahoma panhandle region, and

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to the

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and

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region. It has two legs, one from Texas and the other from Louisiana, which meet near

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History

ANR was founded as the Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Company on July 25, 1945. In 1947, the company received federal approval to build a $52 million, 1,800-mile-long pipeline from Texas to the

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area and to sections of

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and

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. The Michigan-Wisconsin Pipeline began operations on November 1, 1949. The pipeline ran from Hansford County in the

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through Oklahoma,

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, Missouri and Iowa to

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, where it branches in two with one line to serve

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and the other Wisconsin. The Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Company's name was changed in 1984 to the ANR Pipeline Company, in order to identify the company more closely with its parent, American Natural Resources. In 1985, American Natural Resources was acquired by Coastal Corporation.

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acquired Coastal Corporation in 2001. El Paso Energy sold ANR Pipeline to

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in 2007.

Incidents

Explosion of 1993 On November 23rd, 1993 there was an explosion on the pipeline in

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Explosion of 2008

On March 11, 2008, an explosion occurred on the pipeline off the coast of Marsh Island, Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico, while the Motor Vessel Jillian Morrison was bleeding natural gas from a shut section of a pipeline into a tank on the vessel. Six crew members of the vessel were injured and one left missing.

Rupture of 2014

On September 16, 2014, around 2am EDT, a rupture occurred on the pipeline in

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. About 520 people were evacuated.

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