Plains expands capacity of Texas crude pipeline
Plains All American Pipeline said on Thursday that it recently increased the available throughput capacity of its 80-mile Mesa pipeline system in Texas by 100,000 bpd to approximately 420,000 bpd overall.
The Mesa system, which originates near Midland, Texas, delivers crude oil to Alon’s Big Spring, Texas refinery and feeds both the West Texas Gulf pipeline, which serves markets south and east of Cushing, and the Basin pipeline system, which delivers crude oil to the Cushing hub.
The system is jointly owned by subsidiaries of Plains All American and Sunoco Logistics.
"This was a very low-cost project that provides our shippers with market alternatives and supports the recently announced expansions of both the West Texas Gulf and Basin pipeline systems,” said Harry N. Pefanis, president of Plains All American.
PAA owns and operates a network of approximately 16,000 miles of liquids pipelines, approximately 90 million bbl of liquids storage capacity and handles over 3 million bbl of physical product on a daily basis.
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