Colonial Announces Expansion Of Virginia Line

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ATLANTA, Oct. 31, 2011 — Colonial Pipeline announced today a capacity expansion in Virginia that can increase deliveries to the Tidewater area by 1 million gallons (or 24,000 barrels) per day.

Adjustments to increase pipeline flow rates will be installed in Richmond and Yorktown, Va., starting in January. When completed in the first quarter of 2012, increased deliveries of gasoline, diesel fuel and other products will be available to customers at six Colonial delivery locations in the Norfolk-Newport News-Portsmouth area.

This project is partially the result of a new connection made in Yorktown where a refinery shut down and converted its storage tanks to a delivery facility serving the Tidewater area. The successful connection at Yorktown helped usher in the service improvement.

Colonial previously announced a series of capacity expansions that serve customers across the Houston-to-New York pipeline system. Upgrades completed earlier in 2011 added 100,000 barrels per day (or 2.4 million gallons) of new capacity specifically serving the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York markets.

Another mainline expansion of 20,000 barrels also has been completed, with a second phase due to add an additional 55,000 barrels per day by June 2012. This two-phased expansion is increasing total system capacity from the Gulf Coast to all delivery locations.

“We will continue investing in our pipeline system in order to expand our system and our service to our customers,” said Tim Felt, Colonial’s President and CEO. ​“We provide energy solutions that are delivered safely, reliably, efficiently and with the quality our customers and the U.S. consumer have come to depend on.”

Colonial’s Houston-to-New York harbor pipeline system consists of more than 5,500 miles of pipe and connects Gulf Coast refineries with markets across the South and Eastern U.S. Colonial safely transports refined petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, home heating oil and fuels for the U.S. military. For more information, please visit www.colpipe.com.