This terminal project located in Platteville, Colo., involves subsidiaries Tallgrass Terminals and Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline (Pony Express). The terminal will interconnect with Saddle Butte’s Denver-Julesburg Basin crude oil gathering system.

Pending the successful conclusion of the Pony Express Pipeline’s recently announced open season, the Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal will serve as a new pipeline origin for the Pony Express Platteville Extension. The Platteville Extension is expected to have an ultimate takeaway capacity of at least 80,000 b/d of crude oil and is expected to be in service in the second half of 2018.

Saddle Butte’s Milton Terminal also will serve as an origin point on Pony Express, allowing Pony Express to offer direct refinery and Cushing terminal connections to Saddle Butte’s producer customers in the near term while the Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal is developed, according to Tallgrass.

The Milton Terminal will continue as an origin point when the terminal is operational. Tallgrass Terminals will wholly own and operate the Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal when it is completed.

Consistent with the Pony Express Pipeline’s current operations, the Tallgrass Grasslands Terminal will offer batching service for several common streams sourced from multiple gathering system interconnects.

Doug Johnson, general manager of Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline, said, “Via its direct connections to refineries and six final-destination terminals in Cushing, Pony Express provides customers a broad range of delivery options and improved netbacks versus other alternative transport options.

“Saddle Butte has been great to work with, and our collaboration has enabled us to accelerate the development of our Platteville Extension by at least six months,” he added.

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