A missing gas line started the business. Nearly a century later, Suburban Propane is using its delivery network to fund a costly experiment in what comes next.
A pipeline is useful. A pipeline connected to processing plants, storage tanks and ocean docks is a business. Energy Transfer has spent three decades assembling the difference.
A gas station is the part you see. Sunoco LP built its strategy around everything that gets fuel there - and the contracts that keep it flowing.