Colonial Pushes Baltimore North Destination End to May 1
3/27 4:39 PM
Colonial Pushes Baltimore North Destination End to May 1 OAKHURST, N.J. (DTN) --- Colonial Pipeline this afternoon, in light of Tuesday's incident in Baltimore, Maryland, and out of an abundance of caution, said it would provide additional service time for the North Baltimore destination "to further develop and provide Colonial shippers with additional optionality at this time to accommodate such needs." Colonial filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this month to cancel transportation service on Line 36, which delivers product to the Baltimore-North (Baltimore City), also known as Baltimore North Destination, effective April 1. At the time, Colonial said Line 36 has one terminal connected to it and that underutilization and increased integrity expenditures necessitate cancellation. However, today Colonial amended its original tariff filing to extend the date of the cancellation of service to the Baltimore North Destination to May 1, 2024. Colonial believes its South Baltimore destination, served off Lines 4, 31 and 32, have ample space for shippers to meet the increased demand, "in light of the timing" of the bridge incident and "out of an abundance of caution" is providing additional time and optionality. "This extension will allow shippers more time to adjust to the changes and to bring more clarity to the schedule for reopening the ship channel into the Port of Baltimore." Other than the change of the effective dates of the tariffs to May 1, the amended tariffs are unchanged from the original tariffs. Fuel to the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. markets is primarily delivered by CPL's Line 4, a 504,000-bpd mixed product pipeline that terminates at Dorsey Junction in Maryland. There are four pipeline spurs from Dorsey that connect to Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Curtis Bay, and south Baltimore. Three of the line spurs carry mixed fuels with pipeline capacity totaling roughly 188,800 bpd. The fourth line is dedicated to kerosene jet fuel to the BWI airport with a capacity of about 28,800 bpd. Colonial's 855,000-bpd Line 3 mixed product pipeline continues from Dorsey to the Aberdeen Junction, and ends in Linden, New Jersey. A line spur with about 62,400 bpd of mixed product capacity from Aberdeen connects with north Baltimore. (c) Copyright 2024 DTN, LLC. All rights reserved.