Delaware Connector Pipeline

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Delaware Connector Pipeline is an operating oil pipeline in Texas, USA.

Location

The pipeline will run through Loving and Winkler counties, Texas, USA.

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Project Details

• Operator:
• Owner: ExxonMobil Pipeline Company
• Parent company: ExxonMobil
• Capacity: 480,000 barrels per day
• Length: 47.9 miles
• Diameter: 30 inches
• Status: Operating
• Start year: 2020

Background

The pipeline will help the company triple Permian output by 2025. It is intended to deliver Permian crude from southern New Mexico to newly-built storage tanks built at the expanding Wink Terminal, which is becoming a local crude oil transportation hub.

A permit was issued and construction began in 2018, according to the Railroad Commission of Texas.

In September of 2019, ExxonMobil Corp. launched a binding open season for the pipeline. In their 2020 Annual Report, ExxonMobil stated that in 2020 they "started operations at a central processing and export facility in the Delaware Basin." We take this to mean the pipeline became operational in 2020.