(Source: Datamonitor)
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has announced that its subsidiary Plantation Pipe Line Company has completed the first transmarket commercial shipment of blended 5% B5 biodiesel, on a mainline segment of the pipeline.
The company has injected B99 into ultra low sulfur diesel at Plantation's Collins, Mississippi pump station and breakout tank farm creating a 15,000 barrel batch of B5 that it then shipped to marketing terminals located in Athens, Georgia and Roanoke, Virginia.
Upon receipt of the product at both facilities, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) has performed testing on samples from the batch and found that the samples arrived on specification.
In addition to Athens and Roanoke, the company has said that it will be able to move blended B5 to Birmingham and Oxford in Alabama, Bremen and Atlanta in Georgia, Belton and Spartanburg in South Carolina and Charlotte and Greensboro in North Carolina along Plantation.
Tom Bannigan, president of KMP Products Pipeline, said: "We believe the blending and transportation of biodiesel by pipeline will have significant advantages for our customers when compared to the alternative of installing capital intensive blending facilities at individual marketing terminals."
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