31 May 2013 23:44 [Source: ICIS news]
HOUSTON (ICIS)--Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has cancelled its plans for a $2bn (€1.5bn) pipeline connecting West Texas crude oil to California, citing a lack of interest from potential shippers, the midstream company said on Friday.
“At Kinder Morgan, we don’t believe in the concept of build it and they will come,” said Mark Kissel, Kinder Morgan’s west region gas pipelines president, in a statement to the press. “We stated at the outset that we would not move forward with the project without customer support, and we did not receive enough interest for us to commit to building the project at this time.”
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