Company Cancels Byhalia Connection Pipeline Project
(P&GJ) — Byhalia Connection LLC announced it is no longer pursing the Byhalia Connection construction project, which had planned to build an oil pipeline through southwest Tennessee and northern Mississippi.
Byhalia Connection LLC announced it is no longer pursing the Byhalia Connection construction project, which had called for the construction of an oil pipeline through southwest Tennessee and northern Mississippi.The project was canceled “primarily due to lower US oil production resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic,” Plains All American Director of Communications Brad Leone said in an issued statement.
Byhalia Pipeline LLC is a joint venture between a subsidiary of Plains All American Pipeline and a subsidiary of Valero.
The Byhalia Connection Pipeline would have run about 49 miles (79 kilometers) from Memphis to Marshall County, Mississippi, connecting the Diamond Pipeline, which provides crude oil to the Valero Memphis Refinery, to the Capline Pipeline, which runs between central Illinois and the U.S. Gulf Coast. The company had planned to start the 9-month construction project this year.
“Pipelines continue to play a critical role in safely transporting energy products from where energy is produced to where it is refined and turned into consumer goods that benefit our lives,” Leone said in the statement. “As part of any shift to lower carbon energy, hydrocarbons will continue to be a critical part of meeting increasing global need for affordable, reliable energy. Access to all forms of energy improves quality of life, education and economic opportunity for individuals and communities throughout North America and across the globe.”
Environmental activists opposed the project, the Associated Press reported, noting a fear of oil spills contaminating waterways.
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