Cactus Oil Pipeline

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Cactus Oil Pipeline is an oil pipeline in Texas, United States.

Location

The pipeline originates in McCamey, Texas, and terminates in Gardendale, Texas.

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Project Details

• Operator: Plains All American Pipeline
• Current capacity: 390,000 barrels per day
• Proposed capacity:
• Length: 310 miles (500 kilometers)
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: April 2015

Background

The 310-mile, 20-inch-diameter Cactus pipeline delivers sweet and sour crude oil from the Permian Basin to the Plains All American Pipeline-Enterprise Products Partners Eagle Ford joint venture pipeline.

In January 2017, Plains All American Pipeline announced it was expanding the capacity of the Cactus pipeline from 200,000 bpd to 390,000 bpd.