NuStar Energy to expand Albuquerque refined products pipeline

NuStar Energy LP plans to develop 6,000 b/d of incremental pipeline capacity for delivery of refined products, including gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, into the Albuquerque, NM, region.

NuStar will upgrade pump stations on a pipeline system it jointly owns with Phillips 66 Partners that transports refined products from Amarillo, Tex., to Albuquerque. In addition to increasing capacity on the system, the project will install larger and more efficient electric pumps and a modern, efficient, diesel-driven pump, providing for higher flow while reducing emissions by eliminating two diesel-driven pump stations. The project is expected to be complete by mid-2022.

In August 2020, NuStar reactivated an idled pump station on its refined products Colorado Springs Pipeline system, increasing capacity by 6,000 b/d into the Colorado Springs and Denver markets. Both markets had lost supply when HollyFrontier Corp.’s 52,000-b/d refinery in Cheyenne, Wyo., closed last year to convert into a renewable fuels plant (OGJ Online, June 2, 2020).