Chevron runs an extensive network of crude oil, natural gas and refined product pipelines and storage facilities in North America. We also operate and invest in pipeline projects around the world.
Chevron Pipe Line Company serves the petroleum and petrochemical industries in North America from headquarters in Houston, Texas. The company operates crude oil terminals and pipelines in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and in Alaska, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas and Utah. We own and/or operate refined product terminals and pipelines in California, Idaho, Texas and Washington. We also own and operate natural gas pipelines and storage facilities in southern Louisiana and West Texas. As of 2010, Chevron operated more than 5,200 net miles (84,000 km) in North America. In the fourth quarter of 2010, the company sold its 23.4 percent ownership interest in Colonial Pipeline.
Chevron continues to build and grow the network.
In 2010, we expanded our Keystone natural gas storage facility near Midland, Texas, by approximately 2 billion cubic feet, for a total natural gas capacity of nearly 7 billion cubic feet.
In the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, Chevron is leading the construction of a 136-mile (219-km), 24-inch (61-cm) crude oil pipeline from the planned Jack/St. Malo deepwater production facility to a platform in Green Canyon Block 19 on the Gulf of Mexico shelf. From there, a variety of pipeline options will be available to deliver crude oil to most major trading hubs and refineries in the Gulf Coast region. Major transportation contracts have been executed. Plans call for the project to be completed in 2014, which is also when the production facility is scheduled to go into production.
Work continues on returning the Cal-Ky Pipeline, which was decommissioned in 2002, to crude oil service as a supply line for the Pascagoula Refinery. This pipeline, which spans 103 miles (166 km), begins in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, and ends at the refinery, is also expected to provide additional outlets for the company's crude oil production. It is expected to return to service in 2012.
Chevron has pipeline interests around the world that are operated by our international partners. They include the following:
- The Caspian Pipeline Consortium operates a 935-mile (1,505-km) crude oil export pipeline that runs from the Tengiz Field in Kazakhstan to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.
- The Chad-Cameroon project is developing crude oil fields in southern Chad and transporting the crude oil more than 665 miles (1,070 km) by underground pipeline to the coast of Cameroon for export to world markets.
- The 421-mile (678-km) West African Gas Pipeline transports Nigerian natural gas to customers in Ghana, Benin and Togo for industrial applications and power generation.
- The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline moves crude oil 1,094 miles (1,762 km) from Baku, Azerbaijan, through Georgia to Mediterranean deepwater port facilities in Ceyhan, Turkey.
- The Western Route Export Pipeline offers a connection between Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea to Supsa, Georgia, on the Black Sea.
Chevron's pipeline and terminal operations remain focused on delivering safe, reliable, efficient and flexible services to meet customers' needs.
Updated: March 2011
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