US opens first biodiesel pipeline
Pipeline company Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has announced the first successful commercial shipment of biodiesel to be transported through a pipeline in the US.
The shipment saw a 5% biodiesel blend transported from Mississippi to Georgia, and from Mississippi to Virginia, via the Plantation Pipe Line Company, jointly owned by Kinder Morgan (51%) and Exxon Mobil (49%).
December 2008 saw Kinder Morgan announce the nation’s first ethanol pipeline had begun service.
Whereas fuels such as jet fuel is transported via pipelines throughout the US, biodiesel traditionally is transported by truck, ensuring that it avoids contact with jet fuel, which it can contaminate.
The possibility of some biodiesel trickling back and mixing with jet fuel is ‘not acceptable to the airline and jet fuel customers we’re familiar with,’ said Mark Evans, the director of business development for Kinder Morgan.
The Southeast is not known as a major market for biodiesel, which even in other parts of the country is a relatively small and struggling fuel product.
The shipment saw a 5% biodiesel blend transported from Mississippi to Georgia, and from Mississippi to Virginia, via the Plantation Pipe Line Company, jointly owned by Kinder Morgan (51%) and Exxon Mobil (49%).
December 2008 saw Kinder Morgan announce the nation’s first ethanol pipeline had begun service.
Whereas fuels such as jet fuel is transported via pipelines throughout the US, biodiesel traditionally is transported by truck, ensuring that it avoids contact with jet fuel, which it can contaminate.
The possibility of some biodiesel trickling back and mixing with jet fuel is ‘not acceptable to the airline and jet fuel customers we’re familiar with,’ said Mark Evans, the director of business development for Kinder Morgan.
The Southeast is not known as a major market for biodiesel, which even in other parts of the country is a relatively small and struggling fuel product.
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