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San Antonio (Platts)--18Mar2013/315 pm EDT/1915 GMT
Colonial Pipeline will begin shipping biodiesel blends on its pipeline
to central and southern Georgia by the end of the month, the company said
Monday, calling it a first for the nation's largest volume pipeline shipper
of refined products.
The introduction of biodiesel into Colonial's system will occur near
Griffin, Georgia, resulting in a blend of no more than 5% biodiesel suitable
for trucking, farming and other diesel uses. The biodiesel will be stored in
tankage owned by TransMontaigne Partners and injected into diesel as it flows
through Colonial's pipeline.
Colonial officials said they have worked with the US Environmental
Protection Agency for years on the project. Gwen Keyes Fleming, EPA regional
administrator, commended Colonial for advancing biofuel growth along the busy
I-75 corridor.
"It took longer than expected, but we're making it happen," Colonial CEO
Tim Felt said at a news conference in San Antonio.
Colonial has a 1.272 million b/d gasoline Line 1 and 1.16 million b/d
distillates Line 2 from Pasadena, Texas, to Greensboro, North Carolina, where
they link up with a 945,000 b/d line into Linden, New Jersey.
The main distillates line allows renewable diesel, which is biodiesel
that has been hydrotreated to kill any live agents in the fuel. But biodiesel
had not been allowed due to the possibility it will trail back into the jet
fuel stream, causing problems with airplane performance.
The 150,000 b/d Line 17, stub line off the main lines from Atlanta to
Bainbridge, Georgia, does not carry jet fuel past Griffin, which is near
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport.
Felt said the company will learn from the project and may look at
biodiesel injection into several other so-called stub lines in the future.
--Matthew Kohlman, matthew_kohlman@platts.com
--Edited by Katharine Fraser, katharine_fraser@platts.com
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