Pony Express Crude Oil Pipeline

Summary Information

• Source: Guernsey, Wyoming
• Destination: Cushing, Oklahoma
• Ownership: Tallgrass Energy Partners
• Website: http://www.tallgrassenergy.com/
• Length: kilometres (690 miles)
• Capacity: 100,000 barrels of oil per day
• Crude Type: Bakken

+++ Brief Description

• The pipeline provides crude oil transportation service from a point near Guernsey, Wyoming to delivery points at Ponca City, Oklahoma and Cushing, Oklahoma
• It is a 24-inch diameter underground crude oil pipeline, transporting light, sweet crude oil
• It is able to supply the Ponca City Refinery
• Pony Express will also own an approximate 66 mile lateral in Northeast Colorado that will commence in Weld County, Colorado and interconnect with the Pony Express mainline just east of Sterling, Colorado
• The pipeline will have an interconnect with the Double H Crude Oil Pipeline & Platte Crude Oil Pipeline at Guernsey, Wyoming when that project is complete

+++ Pipeline Status

• In operation
• An expansion project is underway

+++ History

• 2012 - Pony Express Open Season Announcement
• 2013 - FERC awarded permission to convert the gas pipeline
• 2014 - The pipeline enters service
• 2014 - Expansion project launched

+++ Other Information

• Majority of the pipeline is a conversion of the Pony Express Gas Pipeline

+++ Links

1. Pony Express Open Season Announcement
2. Tallgrass Receives Pony Express Abandonment Order from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
3. Tallgrass Energy Partners Announces Pony Express Pipeline in Commercial Service
4. Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline Announces Binding Open Season for Crude Oil Pipeline Expansion