The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Pipeline Access for Biofuels

Biofuels are excluded from common-carrier pipelines not through explicit refusal letters, but via published product specifications applied uniformly to all shippers. Because non-discrimination rules are legally satisfied, these technical exclusions never generate regulatory complaints before FERC. Dedicated ethanol pipelines account for merely twenty-two miles nationwide, forcing the industry to construct a permanent, parallel rail logistics architecture moving ninety-five percent of interregional volumes. Renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel face identical specification barriers, making product code negotiation a vital commercial priority.