Colonial Oil Products Pipeline

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Summary Information

  • Source: Houston, Texas
  • Destination: Greensboro, North Carolina
  • Ownership: Colonial Pipeline Co.
  • Website: http://www.colpipe.com/
  • Length: kilometres (5,500 miles)
  • Capacity: barrels of oil per day
  • Crude Type: Refined Products

Brief Description

  • The pipeline consists of 5,500 miles of steel pipe buried underground.
  • The Colonial system connects refineries in the Gulf Coast and elsewhere to more than 260 marketing terminals. This network of pipelines and terminals operated by Colonial customers serves communities across the South and Eastern United States.
  • The Colonial pipeline consists of 4 main lines and a number of branch lines.
    • Line 1 - A 40 inch line moving 1.5 million barrels/day of gasoline from Houston to Greensboro, NC
    • Line 2 - A 36 inch line moving 1.2 million barrels/day of middle distillates (diesel, heating oil, jet fuel) from Houston to Greensboro, NC
    • Line 3 - An 885 thousand barrels/day line moving all products (gasoline, diesel, heating oil, jet fuel) from Greensboro, NC to Linden, NJ
    • Line 4 - A 32 inch line moving 700 thousand barrels/day from Greensboro, NC to Baltimore
    • Major spurs off the main lines include:
      • Atlanta to Southern Georgia
      • Atlanta to Tennessee (Chattanooga, Nashville, Knoxville)
      • Greensboro to Raleigh/Durham, NC
      • Mitchell (central Virginia) to Richmond, Norfolk, and Roanoke
    • Colonial connects to a number of other pipelines that move product on through the Northeast, including:
      • Laurel pipeline (Buckeye) - Connects in Philadelphia and moves product west through Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh
      • IHT - Connects in Linden and moves product across the surrounding New York and New Jersey area
      • Long Island pipeline (Buckeye) - Connects in Linden and moves product across Long Island
      • Buckeye East System - Connects in Linden and moves product west to Eastern Pennsylvania, where there is a connection to the Laurel pipeline and lines moving north into Northeastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York

Pipeline Status

In operation

Refineries Connected to the Pipeline

There are 29 refineries connected to the pipeline including

Pipeline Interconnects

History

  • 2000 - Colonial Pipeline Announces Mainline Capacity Expansion Plans
  • 2014 - Beaumont Marine Terminal opened

Other Information -

Links

  1. Colonial Pipeline Announces Mainline Capacity Expansion Plans
  2. Colonial Pipeline Company, Presentation
  3. Enterprise Products Begins Exporting Refined Products from Beaumont Marine Terminal