Explorer Pipeline plans capacity boosts

April 25, 2006
Explorer Pipeline, Tulsa, plans to increase capacity of its products pipeline to Dallas-Fort Worth by 20,000 b/d by modifying tanks at Greenville, Tex.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Apr. 25 -- Explorer Pipeline, Tulsa, plans to increase capacity of its products pipeline to Dallas-Fort Worth by 20,000 b/d by modifying tanks at Greenville, Tex.

The Dallas-Fort Worth spur is part of Explorer's southern products system between the Gulf Coast and Tulsa, which has capacity of 660,000 b/d.

The company also has approved funding for the engineering and design of a mainline expansion from Houston through Dallas to Tulsa, to increase capacity by as much as 230,000 b/d, and a spur line expansion from the mainline to Dallas-Fort Worth for as much as 100,000 b/d of additional capacity.

The company's northern system linking Tulsa with St. Louis and Chicago has capacity of 450,000 b/d.