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Originally Posted by Hugh R
Don't know about Orygun. But I know gas in Las Vegas comes from the Cal-New pipeline in Colton, from the Los Angeles refiners They dump all the gas and diesel in at different times, pump it to LV and when it gets there, they send the gas to the various distributors who add their own magic additives.
It used to be they'd send gas then diesel along in the same line one after the other and the guy at the other end knew about when the switch over would occur and start taking samples and measuring specific gravity, or something and then make a decision to switch from gas tanks to diesel tanks. The slop between the two went to a diesel tank.
They may be more sophisticated than that now.
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it is, The flow through some pipelines rarely if ever stops even though it can ship all sorts of different products but it's all computerized and they make very precise cuts.
They call that small portion between shipments "transmix". They cut it and re-route it and sell it back to the refineries as a blend stock or to re-run.
It's all sampled and tested to be on-spec (gubmint required) prior to final delivery.