Texas crude pipelines
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About these figures
- Volumes are each pipeline's monthly figure in thousand barrels a day (kb/d), from the model's published network files.
- Texas filings are the monthly pipeline returns Texas carriers file with the Railroad Commission (Form T-1). A line's figure is an estimate from its own return, or from the named rows of its operator's system return; EPIC's two legs share one return, split by capacity, and Cactus I is its shippers' deliveries into it. A month with no figure was not filed, was withheld or has not been read: it is a gap, never a zero.
- Federal filings are the FERC returns of interstate lines that run through Texas. They are often one daily rate for a quarter or a year, repeated in each month, so their month-on-month change is often zero. Mid Valley and Zydeco are left without a figure for now: their federal figure is the whole system's, not the Texas stretch's.
- The change against the prior month needs a figure in both months. The change against the average compares the latest month with the average of the twelve months before it, and needs at least half of them.
- The total in the key figures adds each line's own figure for one month. A barrel that runs through two lines (EPIC's two legs, a line that feeds another) counts on both, so it is throughput on these lines, not crude produced.
- Capacity is the line's nameplate in the model. Utilisation is the published figure over it. A month above capacity is flagged, not hidden: drag-reducing agents let a line run a little over nameplate, and a lot over is a question about the figure.
- Lines are drawn from EIA's published crude pipeline map. Wink-to-Webster and Sunrise II have no published line, so they are in the table but not on the map.
- Refinery capacity is EIA's operable capacity, per calendar day. Crude by pipeline is what Texas carriers report delivering to the plant: not the plant's crude runs, and nothing that arrives by water or truck.
- Filers are the companies and registered pipeline systems named in the Texas returns. A filer's figures cover its whole Texas system: the returns do not say which barrels rode which drawn line.