Large pipeline operators in the U.S. shale patch are reducing fees to keep their upstream customers shipping crude from the Texas oilfields to the U.S. Gulf Coast amid a decline in demand in the pandemic. Kinder Morgan, for example, is offering a discount of around 50 percent on its pipeline in the Eagle Ford shale play for some of its current customers, people with knowledge of the issue told Bloomberg . Another pipeline operator, Magellan Midstream Partners, is in talks with customers whose contracts should be renewed later this year about potentially offering lower tariffs on the BridgeTex system in the Permian, Bloomberg’s sources said. Energy Transfer, for its part, is offering a temporary volume incentive rate for shippers on the Permian Express 2 and Permian Express 3 pipelines. Last month, Reuters reported that Magellan Midstream Partners had even offered to its customers the option to ship crude on […]