Looks Like We Made It - Colonial Leak's Impact Minimized by Imports, Use of Line 2

The increase in waterborne flows to the East Coast in response to the recent Colonial Pipeline outage illustrated the flexibility of supply in the U.S. motor gasoline market. At the same time, the lack of a lasting impact from the loss of 8.3 million barrels of gasoline to a key U.S. demand region highlighted the degree of oversupply in the market. Today we look at how waterborne flows helped to mitigate the effects of the Colonial Pipeline outage, and how flexibility in the East Coast motor gasoline market enabled it to handle unexpected supply constraints with minimal disruption.

Roundabout! - Canada-To-Rockies Crude Flows Reshaping The PADD 4 Guernsey Market

Canadian crude output is rising, requiring new export routes. As traditional pathways face constraints, the U.S. Rockies—especially the Guernsey, WY hub—are emerging as key corridors for moving Canadian heavy crude to downstream markets, including the Gulf Coast.

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Colonial Pipeline is the largest source of refined product supply for the U.S. East Coast. As we said in Move It On Over, Colonial’s primary route (from Houston to Linden, NJ) consists of four distinct segments, which, like the “arms” and “legs” of an X, meet at Greensboro, NC. One of the two Houston-to-Greensboro lines is dedicated to moving motor gasoline (Line 1 on the map in Figure 1; capacity, 1.37 MMb/d), and the other line (Line 2; capacity, 1.16 MMb/d) can be used to ship either distillate (diesel and heating oil) or gasoline, each of which can be move sequentially through Line 2 in “batches”. (See Refined, Piped, Delivered–They’re Yours for a primer on batching.) At Greensboro, these products go into breakout tanks; from there, gasoline and distillates are sent further north (again in batches) on two mainline pipes. Line 3 (capacity, 885 Mb/d) runs from Greensboro to Linden––where it connects with the Intra Harbor Transfer (IHT) system, which facilitates deliveries to terminals across the New York and New Jersey area. Line 4 is a 32-inch-diameter pipe (capacity, ~700 Mb/d) that runs from Greensboro to Colonial’s Dorsey Junction terminal near Baltimore, MD.

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About the song

"Looks Like We Made It" was written by Richard Kerr, with lyrics by Will Jennings. The song appears as the third song on side two of Barry Manilow's fourth studio album, This One's For You. Released as a single in April 1977, the song went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles and Adult Contemporary Singles charts. It has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Personnel on the record were: Barry Manilow (vocals, piano); Dennis Farac, Richard Resnicoff, David Spinozza, Jerry Friedman (guitar); Steven Donaghey, Will Lee (bass); Alan Axelrod, Paul Shaffer (keyboards); Lee Gurst, Ron Zito (drums); Carlos Martin (percussion); Debra Byrd, Lady Flash, Monica Burruss, Ron Dante (backing vocals); and Gerald Alters, Charlie Calello, Van McCoy, Dick Behrke (orchestration).

This One's For You was produced by Ron Dante and Barry Manilow. The album was released in August 1976 and went to #6 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. It has been certified 3x Platinum by the RIAA. Three singles were released from the LP.

Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor whose career has spanned more than five decades. He has released 31 studio albums, six live albums, 17 compilation albums, four soundtrack albums, and 57 singles, and has sold more than 85 million records worldwide. Barry Manilow has won two Emmys, three American Music Awards, and one Grammy Award, and is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He continues to record and tour.

On the Dark Side - Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Exposes Vulnerability, Highlights Resiliency

Author Housley Carr

We all hope that by the time you read this the operators of the ransomware-impacted Colonial Pipeline will have been able to restore service to more of the 5,500-mile refined products delivery system — maybe even to all of it. In any case, the shutdown of the Houston-to-New-Jersey pipeline system on Friday both exposes the vulnerability of the North American pipeline grid to malevolent hackers and reveals how, by its very nature, that same grid offers at least some degree of redundancy and resiliency built into it. A lot of that ability to respond to a crisis, whether it be a pipeline leak or a hack by an Eastern European criminal group called DarkSide, involves what you might call “market-inspired workarounds” — alternative suppliers reacting to an anticipated supply void and potentially higher prices by jumping into action. Today, we look at what the ransomware attack on the U.S.’s largest gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel transportation system can teach us.

Mon 3/21/16 - Blog

Refined Fuels

Move It On Over—Transportation Fuel/Heating Oil Pipelines To The East Coast

Author Housley Carr

The East Coast consumes more than 200 million gallons of gasoline, diesel, heating oil and jet fuel a day, but produces only one-fifth of that total, most of it at New Jersey and Pennsylvania refineries. To keep the region’s cars, trucks, trains and airplanes moving (and many of its homes and businesses heated) huge volumes of fuels need to be delivered from elsewhere, mostly via two pipelines from the Gulf Coast and the rest by ship—some from Gulf and other U.S. ports and some from overseas. Today, we continue our examination of the infrastructure that moves gasoline, diesel, heating oil and jet fuel to the nation’s largest fuel-consuming region with a look at four major pipelines.

Tue 12/22/15 - Blog

Refined Fuels

Space Oddity – Congestion On The Colonial Refined Products Pipeline

Author Sandy Fielden

While recent analysis has raised concerns crude oil pipelines are running half empty the opposite is true for many of the nations’ refined product distribution pipes. Take the huge Colonial Pipeline system that delivers as much as 2.7 MMb/d of refined products from Gulf Coast refineries to destinations up the East Coast as far as New York. The southern stretch of the pipeline from Pasadena near Houston to Greensboro, NC has been running full since 2012 - meaning that shipper volumes are subject to rationing or apportionment. Today we start a two-part series explaining why the Colonial pipeline is so congested and how it operates.

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