Several Kinder Morgan Renewable Diesel Infrastructure Projects to Be in Service This Quarter
by Ron Kotrba (Biobased Diesel Daily) Kinder Morgan Inc. executives provided an overview and update on the energy-infrastructure company’s renewable fuel projects in its fourth-quarter earnings report Jan. 18. According to CEO Steve Kean, approximately 80 percent of Kinder Morgan’s project backlog is in lower-carbon energy services, including renewable diesel and feedstocks associated with renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
In Kinder Morgan’s products-pipelines segment, the company’s Southern California renewable diesel hub, which will connect marine and other delivered renewable diesel supplies in the Los Angeles harbor area to the Colton and San Diego areas by way of its Santa Fe Pacific Pipeline, remains on track to be in full service by the end of March.
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Kinder Morgan’s Northern California renewable diesel hub, which will connect up to 882,000 gallons of renewable diesel supplies from the San Francisco Bay area to the Sacramento, San Jose and Fresno markets through its northern pipeline system, is also targeted for an in-service date this quarter.
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Kinder Morgan also continues construction work at its Carson Terminal to connect marine supplies of renewable diesel coming into its Los Angeles harbor hub to its truck rack for delivery of unblended renewable diesel to local markets.
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In its terminal segment, Kinder Morgan stated that it is expanding its renewable diesel and SAF feedstock storage and logistics offering in its lower Mississippi River hub to serve the growing renewable fuels market.
The company expects a $52 million expansion project at its Geismar River Terminal in Geismar, Louisiana, to be in service by the fourth quarter of next year.
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Kinder Morgan also shared that tank-conversion work is nearing completion on the initial phase of the renewable feedstock storage and logistics hub under development at its Harvey, Louisiana, facility. Upon completion, the facility will serve as a hub in the U.S. where Neste Corp. will store a variety of feedstocks such as used cooking oil. READ MORE