KMP completes first commercial shipment of biodiesel in US on plantation pipe line.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP announced that Plantation Pipe Line Co is the first pipeline company in the US to transport biodiesel for commercial purposes. Plantation Pipe Line completed the first transmarket commercial shipment of blended 5% biodiesel (B5) on a mainline segment of the pipeline. The company injected B99 into ultra low sulfur diesel at Plantation Pipe Line's Collins, MS, pump station and breakout tank farm creating a 15,000 bbl batch of B5 that it then shipped to marketing terminals located in Athens, GA, and Roanoke, VA. Upon receipt of the product at both facilities, Kinder Morgan performed testing on samples from the batch and found that the samples arrived on …