Texas pipeline company Max Energy has purchased the Upper Gulf Coast Pipeline from Southcross Gulf Coast Transmission Ltd. and is working to convert the system from natural gas to crude oil.

Max said the eight-inch to 16-inch diameter natural gas pipeline is dormant and “strategically located.” The Southcross intrastate system has numerous intersection points with major crude pipelines that run across Texas, from the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin toward coastal destinations in Corpus Christi, Houston and Edna. 

The deal adds another 328 miles of existing pipeline to Max infrastructure on the Texas coast, it said.

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