San Antonio-based NuStar Energy said Wednesday it has completed three pipeline projects to expand its capacity to move Permian Basin crude oil to Corpus Christi for export and to move refined products to northern Mexico. NuStar completed the second stage of its WTI export project, a new eight-mile, 30-inch pipeline to transport crude oil from a connection to Cactus II in Taft to NuStar’s Corpus Christi terminal – bringing its total capacity to 3.9 million barrels.
Also, NuStar began moving volumes on its newly expanded Valley pipeline system in south Texas after increasing the system’s capacity to supply products from Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande Valley and northern Mexico. The expansion doubled the pipeline’s capacity to about 90,000 b/d. And NuStar began moving diesel into northern Mexico following reactivation of its existing 11-mile, 8-inch refined products pipeline connecting its Laredo terminal in south Texas and its Nuevo Laredo terminal in Mexico.