Refined products pipe’s second disruption highlights the value pipelines bring to U.S. consumers Colonial Pipeline’s Line 1 resumed shipping gasoline on Sunday morning, after experiencing its second outage this year on October 31. The Colonial outage continues to highlight the importance of both the Colonial Pipeline system to East Coast markets and the need for flexibility and redundancy in the nation’s energy infrastructure network, as RBN Energy President Rusty Braziel discusses in Forbes . This time around, Lower Atlantic motor gasoline stocks were 20 percent higher than the previous five-year average, keeping prices steady. The previous outage saw record changes in gasoline stocks in both the Atlantic and Gulf Coast, causing prices to spike . At full capacity, the line carries 1.4 MMBbls/d of gasoline from the Gulf Coast to a major product and storage hub in Greensboro, North Carolina. Branches provide gasoline to central and south Tennessee, southern […]