HOUSTON, TX — (Marketwire) — 08/26/11 — Buckeye Partners, L.P. (“Buckeye”) (NYSE: BPL) announced that it plans to initiate start up procedures today at BORCO, its marine terminal in the Bahamas. Buckeye had suspended operations at the terminal on Wednesday night, August 24, 2011, as part of its preparations to secure the facility for Hurricane Irene. The storm has now passed the Bahamas and there has been effectively no adverse impact from the storm on the facility.
“We expect the terminal to be fully operational again by Monday, August 29, 2011,” said Clark C. Smith, Buckeye–s President and Chief Operating Officer. “We also will be resuming work on our expansion project at BORCO now that the storm has passed. Safety is a top priority at Buckeye. We have well-established plans that we activate during storm conditions to secure our facilities and we will continue to make every effort to ensure safe operations.” Buckeye has also been preparing its facilities along the East Coast for storm conditions related to Hurricane Irene.
Buckeye Partners, L.P. (NYSE: BPL) is a publicly traded partnership that owns and operates one of the largest independent liquid petroleum products pipeline systems in the United States in terms of volumes delivered, with over 6,000 miles of pipeline. Buckeye also owns more than 100 liquid petroleum products terminals with aggregate storage capacity of approximately 64 million barrels, operates approximately 3,400 miles of pipeline under agreements with major oil and chemical companies, owns a high-performance natural gas storage facility in Northern California, and markets liquid petroleum products in certain regions served by its pipeline and terminal operations. Buckeye–s flagship marine terminal in the Bahamas, BORCO, is one of the largest oil and petroleum products storage facilities in the world, serving the international markets as a premier global logistics hub. Buckeye is celebrating its 125th anniversary as a midstream energy company in 2011. More information concerning Buckeye can be found at .
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