Colonial Pipeline - Operations

Operations

Colonial Pipeline’s field operations are divided into three districts:

  • The Gulf Coast District includes Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and is primarily responsible for the originating deliveries on Colonial. Other than a few refineries in the Northeast, Colonial draws products from refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
  • The Southeast District includes Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. The company’s second largest tank farm is in suburban Atlanta and is the point from which local supplies are delivered and from where pipelines serving Tennessee and southern Georgia originate. The company’s largest tank farm is in Greensboro, N.C. where the two mainlines which originate in Houston terminate. It is from this point that deliveries to the Northeast originate.
  • The Northeast District’s operations include Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey. Colonial’s Northeast operations also serve Delaware and Pennsylvania. In Linden, N.J. Colonial operates the Intra-Harbor Transfer system which provides numerous customers the ability to transfer products among themselves and access barge transportation for exporting product.

Colonial connects directly to major airports, including Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh-Durham, Dulles and Baltimore-Washington. It serves metropolitan New York airports via connections with Buckeye Pipeline.

Colonial’s approved product list includes more than 86 different products. Approximately 15-20 of these products move with great regularity on the pipeline.

Primarily, shipments are fungible, but segregated shipments are possible and occur regularly. Fungible shipments are products commingled with other quantities of the same product specifications. Segregated batches preserve a fuel property not allowed in the fungible specifications.

All products delivered on Colonial must pass a rigorous, oversight test program to assure quality. Colonial protects the quality of the products it carries to the point of excluding certain products. For example, bio-diesel contains fatty-acid methyl esters (FAME), which cannot be allowed to mix into jet fuels moving in the same pipeline.

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