The Pipelines Carrying Transportation Fuel(s) From Texas/Louisiana To Northeast -- RBN Energy -- March 22, 2016

See the introduction here.

The heavy lifters are the Colonial Pipeline and the Plantation Pipeline. Of these two, the Colonial is by far the largest, and even so, is remarkably congested.

Colonial Pipeline

Current events: this pipeline is congested; line-space trading has been the subject of shipper concerns and the FERC.

Pipeline:

• 2.5 million bbls/day (transportation fuels)
• 5,500 miles of pipe
• primary line: Houston to Linden, NJ
• terminus alongside the New Jersey Turnpike, just west of Staten Island
• several injection points at the southern end; several spurs as it goes north
• started operating in 1963
• co-owned:
• Koch Industries
• KKR
• a Quebec pension fund
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Funds Management (Australia)
• runs through or near many of the East Coast's major population centers
• Atlanta
• Charlotte, NC
• Washington, DC
• Baltimore
• Philadelphia
• New York City (terminus)

Plantation Pipeline (about 1/4th the size of the Colonial)

Pipeline:

• 0.7 million bbls/day
• jointly owned: Kinder Morgan and XOM
• Baton Rouge to northern Virginia (near Washington, DC)
• both pipelines (parallel each other for the most part)
• dates back to WWII
• several spurs; many to regional/national airports
• Birmingham and Montgomery, AL
• Columbus, Macon, Atlanta, GA
• Knoxville, TN
• Charlotte, NC
• Greensboro, NC
• Virginia

Buckeye Partners

Pipeline system:

• connects Central Atlantic-area refineries with the northern portion of the Colonial
• delivers transportation fuel to the east, west, and north
• system extends into Corpus Christi area
• provides jet fuel to NYC area's three airports

Sunoco Logistics Partners LP

• Philadelphia area: refineries, terminals, and ports