Kinder Morgan mulls new uses for Cochin

Market: Condensate, LPG, Petroleum transportation
14/01/15

Kinder Morgan plans to convert some or all of the eastern segments of its 95,000 b/d Cochin Pipeline for a new use in January 2018, according to a regulatory filing.

Possible future uses of the line — which ships US light condensates and natural gasoline to markets in Western Canada for diluent use — were not disclosed in the filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Kinder Morgan has shipped 10.4mn bl of light condensate on Cochin since the line was reversed on 18 July to year-end 2014, the filing said.

The line runs between Fort Saskatchewan near Edmonton, Alberta, and Kankakee Station in Illinois where it connects with the TEPPCO and Explorer pipelines that source product from the US Gulf coast. Before its reversal, the line shipped propane into key heating demand centers in the midcontinent.

Kinder Morgan has committed 85,000 b/d of the pipeline's capacity through ten-year term contracts. After beginning linefill in July, Kinder Morgan announced that the Cochin pipeline was nearing its capacity on 14 November 2014.

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