Kinder morgan energy partners and phillips 66 agree to deliver eagle
ford shale crude to coastal refinery
Houston--(business wire)--kinder morgan energy partners, l.p. (nyse: kmp) and phillips 66 (nyse: psx) have entered into an agreement for kinder morgan to transport eagle ford crude and condensate to phillips 66’s sweeny refinery in brazoria county, texas. under the agreement, kmp plans to build a 27-mile, 12-inch diameter lateral pipeline to extend its kinder morgan crude condensate (kmcc) pipeline. kinder morgan will provide phillips 66 with a significant portion of the lateral pipeline’s initial 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) of capacity, which is expandable to 100,000 bpd. kmp will invest approximately $90 million in the project, which also involves adding associated receipt facilities by constructing a five-bay truck offloading facility and three new storage tanks with approximately 360,000 barrels of crude/condensate capacity at kinder morgan’s dewitt station in dewitt county, texas, and wharton pump station in wharton county, texas. pending receipt of environmental and regulatory approvals, construction is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2012. “this pipeline lateral will provide yet another attractive delivery point for customers of our kmcc pipeline while providing phillips 66 with enhanced access to price-advantaged eagle ford crude and condensate,” said kmp products pipelines president tom bannigan. the project is expected to be immediately accretive to cash available to kmp unitholders upon completion in the first quarter of 2014. kinder morgan’s crude/condensate pipeline, which was ready for service in june 2012, transports crude/condensate from the eagle ford shale to the houston ship channel through 65 miles of new-build construction and 113 miles of converted natural gas pipeline. “this agreement aligns with a fundamental part of the phillips 66 business strategy to get advantaged crude to our refineries,” said glenn simpson, general manager, phillips 66 crude & international supply. kinder morgan energy partners, l.p. (nyse: kmp) is a leading pipeline transportation and energy storage company and one of the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnerships in america. it owns an interest in or operates more than 53,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. the general partner of kmp is owned by kinder morgan, inc. (nyse: kmi). kinder morgan is the largest midstream and the third largest energy company in north america with a combined enterprise value of approximately $100 billion. it owns an interest in or operates approximately 75,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. its pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, co2 and other products, and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals and handle such products as ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel. kmi owns the general partner interest of kmp and el paso pipeline partners, l.p. (nyse: epb), along with limited partner interests in kmp, kinder morgan management, llc (nyse: kmr) and epb. for more information please visit www.kindermorgan.com. headquartered in houston, phillips 66 is an advantaged downstream energy company with segment-leading refining and marketing (r&m), midstream and chemicals businesses. the company has approximately 14,000 employees worldwide. phillips 66’s r&m operations include 15 refineries with a net crude oil capacity of 2.2 million barrels per day, 10,000 branded marketing outlets, and 15,000 miles of pipeline systems. in midstream, the company primarily conducts operations through its 50 percent interest in dcp midstream, llc, one of the largest natural gas gatherers and processors in the united states, with 7.2 billion cubic feet per day of gross natural gas processing capacity. phillips 66’s chemicals business is conducted through its 50 percent interest in chevron phillips chemical company llc, one of the world’s top producers of olefins and polyolefins with more than 30 billion pounds of net annual chemicals processing capacity across its product lines. for more information, visit www.phillips66.com. this news release includes forward-looking statements. although kinder morgan believes that its expectations are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that such assumptions will materialize. important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements herein are enumerated in kinder morgan’s forms 10-k and 10-q as filed with the securities and exchange commission.
