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Explorer schedules restart of products line

  • Märkte: Crude oil, Oil products
  • 01.09.17

The 660,000 b/d Explorer pipeline says it could restart its main product line from the US Gulf coast to Oklahoma as soon as tomorrow as supply disruptions from Hurricane Harvey begin to ease.

Explorer says its 28-inch (71cm) product line between Port Arthur, Texas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, is scheduled to start tomorrow. The connecting 24-inch product line that extends to Wood River, Illinois, and Hammond, Indiana, is scheduled to start on 3 September. Explorer shut those lines after running out of product to transport.

Those start-up times are "subject to change," Explorer says. The 1,380-mile (2,945km) pipeline system transports gasoline, diesel, fuel oil and jet fuel from refineries in the Houston area that were disrupted by severe flooding after Harvey stalled over Texas. The storm dropped more than 40 inches of rain on parts of Texas.

Explorer says its 10-inch products line from Houston to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas is still running. The line was temporarily shut after Harvey made landfall but has been operational for the past three days.


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