Maine’s embattled Portland-Montreal Pipe Line stopped shipping crude after volumes fell sharply following the reversal of Enbridge’s Line 9 line, state data showed Friday. There was no oil shipped on the line in January, the latest month for which data was available from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Pipeline company spokesman Jim Merrill declined to comment and had previously declined to discuss how the competing Line 9 would impact Portland-Montreal. First opened in 1941, the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line, or PMPL, delivered light crudes from South Portland to Montreal. It averaged 60,800 b/d in 2015. However, volumes plummeted from 74,250 b/d in November to 19,435 b/d in December before drying up completely in January 2016. In January 2015, the pipeline averaged 104,500 b/d. Cargoes into Portland have also ceased according to cFlow, Platts trade flow software. There were 30 cargoes into Portland in 2015, all crude oil. There have […]