Abstract
Possibility of the long distance pipeline operation in Japan has been investigated by a committee origanized by Agency of Science and Technology since 1964. As a member of the committee, the author referred only to the question in the pipeline enterprise on the basis of the committee's report. In this country, the pipeline has not yet been diffused and moreover there are no companies dealing mainly with the pipeline construction. Accordingly, the author discussed business problems, making several models and modifyng them. Namely, he described the following: (1) transportation by pipeline and characteristics in Japan, (2) general consideration in the pipeline business, (3) chara-cteristics in the business, (4), questions to be solved, and (5) business system in the realization of the enterprise.
