Caesar Oil Pipeline

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Caesar Oil Pipeline is an oil pipeline in the USA. It is part of the Mardi Gras Transportation System.

Location

The pipeline runs from the Holstein-Mad Dog-Atlantis area (offshore Gulf Coast) to Texas City and Beamont, Texas, via the Cameron Highway pipeline, and to Houma and Fourchon, Louisiana, USA.

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Project details

• Operator:
• Owner: Mardi Gras Transportation System Company LLC
• Parent company: BP Midstream Partners Holdings LLC (via BP Midstream Partners LP) (65%); BP (35%)
• Capacity: 450,000 barrels per day
• Length: 115 miles
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 2004

Background

Caesar Oil Pipeline is owned by four companies: BP America (56%, through its Mardi Gras Transportation Systems subsidiary), BHP Billiton Petroleum (Deepwater) Inc. (25%), Shell Pipeline Company LP (15%), and Union Oil of California (4%). The 28-inch pipe transports crude oil from deepwater leases in the Green Canyon, Walker Ridge,, and Atwater Valley areas of the Gulf of Mexico to a shelf platform located at Ship Shoal Block 332, The pipeline is 115 miles long and is part of the Mardi Gras Transportation System.