greybeard
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I suggest you folks in the SE and East go fill your vehicles up NOW--or see how fast you can build some refineries.. :hide:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pipel ... SKBN12V2FC
Colonial Pipeline Co., which carries refined products to New York Harbor from the U.S. refining center in Houston, shut the lines for the second time in two months. The explosion, which injured eight or nine people, occurred while contractors were working in an area that's home to a "complex series of pipelines," Shelby County Sheriff's Office Major Ken Burchfield said by phone. Major fuel suppliers began notifying wholesalers in South Carolina late Monday of allocations.
Colonial -- and to a lesser extent the smaller Plantation Pipe Line Co. -- play a key role in supplying the U.S. Southeast because there aren't any refineries between Alabama and Pennsylvania that produce substantial quantities of transportation fuels. The region is supplied primarily by pipeline flows from refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
While Colonial has a capacity of 2.6 million barrels a day of refined products, the Plantation pipeline carries just 700,000 barrels a day.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pipel ... SKBN12V2FC
Colonial Pipeline Co., which carries refined products to New York Harbor from the U.S. refining center in Houston, shut the lines for the second time in two months. The explosion, which injured eight or nine people, occurred while contractors were working in an area that's home to a "complex series of pipelines," Shelby County Sheriff's Office Major Ken Burchfield said by phone. Major fuel suppliers began notifying wholesalers in South Carolina late Monday of allocations.
Colonial -- and to a lesser extent the smaller Plantation Pipe Line Co. -- play a key role in supplying the U.S. Southeast because there aren't any refineries between Alabama and Pennsylvania that produce substantial quantities of transportation fuels. The region is supplied primarily by pipeline flows from refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
While Colonial has a capacity of 2.6 million barrels a day of refined products, the Plantation pipeline carries just 700,000 barrels a day.
