Customers

Downstream Segment
Our customers for the transportation of refined products include major integrated oil companies, independent oil companies, the airline industry and wholesalers. End markets for these deliveries are primarily retail service stations, truck stops, railroads, agricultural enterprises, refineries and military and commercial jet fuel users. Propane customers include wholesalers and retailers who, in turn, sell to commercial, industrial, agricultural and residential heating customers, utilities who use propane as a back-up fuel source and petrochemical companies who use propane as a process feedstock. Refineries constitute our major customers for butane and isobutane, which are used as a blend stock for gasolines and as a feed stock for alkylation units, respectively. Our customers for the transportation of petrochemical feedstocks (natural gasoline and naphtha) and semi-finished chemical products (RGP, polymer grade propylene and ethylene) are primarily major chemical companies that consume these components in the production of plastics and a wide array of other commercial products. TEPPCO’s terminaling and marketing customers include major integrated oil companies and wholesale marketers. Our Downstream Segment depends in large part on the level of demand for refined products and LPGs in the geographic locations that we serve and the ability and willingness of customers having access to the pipeline system to supply this demand.

Midstream Segment
The Midstream Segment’s customers for natural gas gathering include major integrated oil and gas companies and large to medium-sized independent producers. Natural gas from Jonah and Val Verde is delivered into major interstate gas pipelines for delivery primarily to markets in the western and mid-continent areas of the United States. The Midstream Segment’s customers for transporting NGLs include affiliates of EPCO and other major integrated oil and gas companies.

Upstream Segment
Our customers for the sale, transportation and storage of crude oil include major integrated oil companies, independent refiners and marketers. LSI distributes lubrication oils and specialty chemicals to natural gas pipelines, gas processors and industrial and commercial accounts, with networks located in Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana.

Marine Services Segment
Our largest marine transportation customers include major and independent oil companies, crude oil producers, traders and refiners. We provide towing services primarily for major oil companies in the refining industry in the states along the Gulf coast.