Kinder Morgan completes first commercial shipment of biodiesel via pipeline

In Texas, Kinder Morgan announced that the Plantation Pipeline completed the first commercial  transportation of biodiesel.  Plantation completed the first transmarket commercial shipment of B5 biodiesel on a mainline segment of the pipeline.

The company injected B99 into ultra low sulfur diesel at Plantation’s Collins, Miss., pump station and breakout tank farm creating a 15,000 barrel batch of B5 that it then shipped to marketing terminals located in Athens, Ga., and Roanoke, Va.

In addition to Athens and Roanoke, the company will be able to move blended B5 to Birmingham and Oxford, Ala; Bremen and Atlanta, Ga.; Belton and Spartanburg, S.C.; and Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C. Kinder Morgan also is optimistic that it will be able to ship blended biodiesel on Plantation’s Tennessee lateral serving both Chattanooga and Knoxville.

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