Buckeye Partners

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.buckeye.com
Employees: 504

It's the octane in fuel in the pipes of Buckeye Pipe Line that gets engines to buck up. A partnership subsidiary of Buckeye Partners, the company operates an interstate common carrier refined petroleum pipeline that runs some 2,643 miles from Massachusetts to Illinois. The refined petroleum products carried include gasoline, turbine fuel, diesel fuel, heating oil and kerosene. The company serves major population centers in nine states. It is also the major jet engine fuel provider to John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport, Newark International Airport and a number of other airports within the territory served by the pipeline operator.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $161.3M

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Forrest E. Wylie
VP Marketing: Robert A. Malecky
Director Corporate Development: Bill Lehner

Competitors:
ExxonMobil Pipeline
NuStar Energy
Shell Pipeline

Stake marks a Buckeye line in Queens, New York

Buckeye Partners, L.P., NYSE: BPL headquartered in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, United States, is one of the primary distributors of petroleum in the eastern and mid-western portions of the United States. Buckeye manages over 5,400 miles (8,700 km) of petroleum pipeline distribution in these areas. Many of the pipelines follow historic Northeastern railroad rights-of-way, and the firm is a surviving fragment of the former Penn Central railroad.

Buckeye pipelines supply aviation fuel to major airports in New York City, and the firm's property is alleged as of 2007 by United States federal prosecutors to have been the target, along with the John F. Kennedy International Airport, for explosion by terrorists.

Buckeye generated $294 million in its most recent fiscal year. The company employs approximately 600 people.

External links

• Buckeye Pipe Line Official Web Site.
• Buckeye Pipe Line profile at Yahoo Finance.

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