According to Colonial Pipeline, gasoline is expected to reach as far north as Charlotte, North Carolina within a day of Line 1's restart. Gasoline shipments on Colonial's system are expected to reach as far north as Baltimore, Maryland, by Tuesday and to reach their northern terminus in Linden, New Jersey, near New York Harbour, by Wednesday.
Total motor gasoline stocks in the Lower Atlantic states (defined by Petroleum Administration for Defense District, or PADD, 1C) were at relatively high levels before the 31 October outage, with 27.5 million barrels, or nearly 20% above the previous five year average, in storage as of October 28. Inventory data for the week ending 4 November will be available on 9 November in EIA's Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
Despite the recent outage, GasBuddy, a crowd-sourced retail gasoline price comparison site, showed retail prices in most areas in the Southeast below US$2.35 per gallon as of 7 November. EIA's weekly retail price for regular gasoline for the Lower Atlantic (PADD 1C) was US$2.17/g as of 7 November, virtually unchanged from the previous week, and 6 cents/g below the national average.
A previous disruption to Line 1 flows from 9 September through 21 September resulted in record changes in motor gasoline stocks in both the Lower Atlantic states and the Gulf Coast states during the week ending September 16. During that week, total motor gasoline stocks in PADD 1C fell by nearly 6 million barrels, from 28 million barrels to 22 million barrels. Meanwhile, Gulf Coast (PADD 3) gasoline stocks increased by nearly 4.8 million barrels. In the week ending 23 September, stocks grew modestly in both regions, indicating that resupply had begun to reach the Lower Atlantic region.
