Colonial Line 1 back in working order

Colonial Pipeline’s Line 1 resumed shipping gasoline Sunday morning from the Gulf Coast to as far east and north as North Carolina.  According to the U-S Energy Information Administration, the line is a key supply source for several states.  When operating at full capacity, Line 1 carries 1.4 million barrels per day of gasoline from the U.S. Gulf Coast to a major junction and product storage hub in Greensboro, North Carolina. Various branches provide gasoline to central and eastern Tennessee, southern Georgia, and eastern and western portions of Virginia. Beyond Greensboro, other portions of Colonial’s system send gasoline, diesel, and other transportation fuels to Maryland and New Jersey. According to Colonial Pipeline, gasoline is expected to reach as far north as Charlotte, North Carolina within a day of Line 1’s restart. Gasoline shipments on Colonial’s system are expected to reach as far north as Baltimore, Maryland, by today and to reach their northern terminus in Linden, New Jersey, near New York Harbor, by tomorrow.  Total motor gasoline stocks in the Lower Atlantic states were at relatively high levels before the October 31 outage.  Despite the recent outage, GasBuddy, a crowd-sourced retail gasoline price comparison site, showed retail prices in most areas in the Southeast below $2.35 per gallon (g) as of yesterday.