Boardwalk Pipeline Partners walks a fine (pipe) line. The limited partnership owns and operates three US interstate natural gas pipeline systems -- totaling 14,450 miles -- that originate in the Gulf Coast region, Arkansas, and Oklahoma and extend to the Midwest. It provides transportation and storage to customers that include gas producers, marketers, local distribution companies, and interstate and intrastate pipelines. It operates through Boardwalk Pipelines, LP and its subsidiaries Gulf Crossing Pipeline Company, Gulf South Pipeline Company, and Texas Gas Transmission. The company's systems carry 11% of the daily US consumption of natural gas. Boardwalk Pipeline Partners is controlled by Loews Corporation.