Shell has scrapped its proposed 300,000-barrel-per-day Westward Ho crude oil pipeline project. Via Reuters, the pipeline would have moved crude from the Gulf of Mexico to Houston, restoring a flow of oil from Louisiana to Texas after Shell reversed its Ho-Ho (now Zydeco) pipeline.
The Westward Ho pipeline’s initially proposed capacity of 900,000 barrels per day was cut to 300,000 barrels per day in 2012 after Shell held an open season. Shell put the project on hold just as other new pipeline projects by companies such as TransCanada and Enterprise Products Partners began moving Gulf of Mexico oil into the Houston and Port Arthur/Nederland, Texas areas.
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