NAICS Code 486 — Pipeline Transportation

Subsector in the official 2022 North American Industry Classification System (U.S. Census Bureau). It contains 3 direct sub-codes.

Code486
TitlePipeline Transportation
LevelSubsector (3-digit)
EditionNAICS 2022 edition

Official definition (2022 NAICS)

Industries in the Pipeline Transportation subsector use transmission pipelines to transport products, such as crude oil, natural gas, refined petroleum products, and slurry. Industries are identified based on the products transported (i.e., pipeline transportation of crude oil, natural gas, refined petroleum products, and other products).

The Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas 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.

Where 486 sits in the hierarchy

LevelCodeTitle
Sector48-49Transportation and Warehousing
Subsector486Pipeline Transportation

Codes under 486

CodeTitle
4861Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil
4862Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas
4869Other Pipeline Transportation

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Data: official 2022 NAICS structure, descriptions and Census concordances, U.S. Census Bureau — U.S. government works in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §105). Suggested reference, not an official determination.