Kinder mulls sending ethanol on Plantation line

Reuters UK
Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:40pm BST

ORLANDO, Florida, April 22 (Reuters) - U.S. oil products pipeline company Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP.N) is exploring sending ethanol on the Louisiana to Virginia Plantation duct as business for the alternative motor fuel expands.

"We are evaluating the Plantation pipeline ... as the next possible pipeline system that can handle ethanol," Jim Lelio, a renewable fuels business development director at the company, told the Alternative Fuels & Vehicles conference in Orlando on Tuesday.

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