Genesis Energy, L.P. provides an integrated suite of midstream services (including transportation, storage, sulfur removal, blending, terminaling and processing) for a large area of the Gulf of America and the Gulf Coast region of the crude oil and natural gas industry.
The company provides an integrated suite of services to crude oil and natural gas producers, refiners, and industrial and commercial enterprises; and has a diverse portfolio of assets, including pipelines, offshore hub and junct...
Genesis Energy, L.P. provides an integrated suite of midstream services (including transportation, storage, sulfur removal, blending, terminaling and processing) for a large area of the Gulf of America and the Gulf Coast region of the crude oil and natural gas industry.
The company provides an integrated suite of services to crude oil and natural gas producers, refiners, and industrial and commercial enterprises; and has a diverse portfolio of assets, including pipelines, offshore hub and junction platforms, refinery-related plants, storage tanks and terminals, railcars, rail unloading facilities, barges and other vessels, and trucks.
The company’s Alkali Business mines and processes trona from which it produces natural soda ash, also known as sodium carbonate (Na2CO3), a basic building block for a number of ubiquitous products, including flat glass, container glass, dry detergent, lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate (which are key inputs in the production of lithium batteries) and a variety of chemicals and other industrial products.
The company manages its businesses through the following four divisions that constitute its reportable segments:
Offshore pipeline transportation, including the transportation and processing of crude oil and natural gas in the Gulf of America;
Soda and sulfur services involving trona and trona-based exploring, mining, processing, soda ash production, marketing, logistics and selling activities, as well as the processing of high sulfur (or ‘sour’) gas streams for refineries to remove the sulfur, and selling the related by-product, sodium hydrosulfide (or ‘NaHS,’ commonly pronounced ‘nash’);
Marine transportation to provide waterborne transportation of petroleum products (primarily fuel oil, asphalt and other heavy refined products) and crude oil throughout North America; and
Onshore facilities and transportation, including terminaling, blending, storing, marketing, and transporting crude oil and petroleum products.
The company’s general partner, Genesis Energy, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary that owns a non-economic general partner interest in it, has sole responsibility for conducting the company’s business and managing its operations.
Offshore Pipeline Transportation
The company conducts its offshore crude oil and natural gas pipeline transportation and handling operations in the Gulf of America through its offshore pipeline transportation segment, which focuses on providing a suite of services to integrated and large independent energy companies who make intensive capital investments (often in excess of a billion dollars) to develop large-reservoir, long-lived crude oil and natural gas properties located primarily offshore Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The Gulf of America is one of the most active drilling and development regions in the U.S. representing approximately 13% of the crude oil production in the U.S. during 2024.
The company owns interests in various offshore crude oil and natural gas pipeline systems, platforms and related infrastructure. The company’s interests in offshore crude oil pipeline systems that are operating (a number of which pipeline systems are substantial and/or strategically located) include approximately 1,431 miles of pipe with an aggregate design capacity of approximately 1,944 MMbls/day. For example, the company owns a 64% interest in the Poseidon Pipeline, and a 64% interest in the CHOPS Pipeline, which are two of the largest crude oil pipelines (in terms of both length and design capacity) located in the Gulf of America. The company also owns 100% of the SEKCO Pipeline, which is a deepwater pipeline servicing the Lucius, Buckskin and Hadrian North fields in the southern Keathley Canyon area of the Gulf of America.
The company’s interests in operating offshore natural gas pipeline systems and related infrastructure include approximately 764 miles of pipe with an aggregate design capacity of approximately 2,308 MMcf/day. The company also owns an interest in two offshore hub platforms with an aggregate processing capacity of approximately 495 MMcf/day of natural gas and 123 MBbls/day of crude oil. Additionally, the company owns an interest in a number of junction and service platforms in the Gulf of America, which are used to interconnect the offshore pipeline network; provide an efficient means to perform pipeline maintenance; and increase or direct the flow on the company’s pipelines via pumps and measurement equipment.
The company’s offshore pipeline transportation segment is well positioned to participate in both the energy transition and lower carbon world as barrels produced from the Gulf of America are some of the least emission intensive barrels, from reservoir to refinery, of any barrel refined by Gulf Coast refineries (including shipping).
Offshore Crude Oil and Natural Gas Pipelines
The company owns interests in several crude oil and natural gas pipelines and related infrastructure located offshore in the Gulf of America.
CHOPS Pipeline: CHOPS Pipeline consists of 24- to 30-inch diameter pipelines designed to deliver crude oil from fields in the Gulf of America to refining markets along the Texas Gulf Coast via interconnections with refineries and terminals located in Port Arthur and Texas City, Texas. Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline Company, LLC (‘CHOPS’) also owns three strategically located multi-purpose offshore platforms. A financial party owns the remaining 36% interest in CHOPS.
Poseidon Pipeline: The Poseidon Pipeline consists of 16- to 24-inch diameter pipelines to deliver crude oil from developments in the central and western offshore Gulf of America to other pipelines and terminals onshore and offshore Louisiana. An affiliate of Shell owns the remaining 36% interest in Poseidon Oil Pipeline Company, LLC (‘Poseidon’).
Odyssey Pipeline: The Odyssey pipeline consists of 12- to 20-inch diameter pipelines to deliver crude oil from developments in the eastern Gulf of America to other pipelines and terminals onshore Louisiana. An affiliate of Shell owns the remaining 71% interest in Odyssey Pipeline, LLC (‘Odyssey’).
Eugene Island: The Eugene Island system consists of a network of crude oil pipelines, the main pipeline of which is 20 inches in diameter, to deliver crude oil from developments in the central Gulf of America to other pipelines and onshore terminals in Louisiana. Other owners in Eugene Island include affiliates of Exxon Mobil and Shell Oil Company.
SEKCO Pipeline: The SEKCO Pipeline is a deepwater pipeline serving the Buckskin oil, Hadrian North oil and Lucius oil and natural gas production areas located in the southern Keathley Canyon area of the Gulf of America. Southeast Keathley Canyon Pipeline Company, LLC (‘SEKCO’) has crude oil transportation agreements with various Gulf of America producers who has dedicated their production from the Buckskin, Hadrian North and Lucius production areas to the SEKCO Pipeline for the life of their reserves. The SEKCO Pipeline will be directly connected to the Salamanca FPS, which is anticipated for first production in the first half of 2025.
SYNC Pipeline: The SYNC pipeline is a newly constructed approximately 105-mile, 20 diameter crude oil pipeline that will connect to the Shenandoah FPS located in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of America to the company’s CHOPS Pipeline and Poseidon Pipeline. The company has successfully laid the 105 miles of SYNC Pipeline and plan to connect it to the Shenandoah FPS when it arrives to its final location in the Gulf of America in the first half of 2025.
Shenzi Pipeline: The Shenzi Pipeline delivers crude oil from the Shenzi production field located in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf of America offshore Louisiana as well as from the King’s Quay FPS, which supports the Khaleesi, Mormont and Samurai field developments, to the CHOPS Pipeline and Poseidon Pipeline.
Allegheny Pipeline: The Allegheny Pipeline connects the Allegheny and South Timbalier 316 platforms in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf of America with the CHOPS Pipeline and Poseidon Pipeline.
Marco Polo Pipeline: The Marco Polo Pipeline transports crude oil from the company’s Marco Polo crude oil platform to an interconnect with the Allegheny Crude Oil Pipeline in Green Canyon Block 164.
Constitution Pipeline: The Constitution Pipeline delivers crude oil from the Constitution, Constellation, Caesar Tonga and Ticonderoga production fields located in the Green Canyon area of the Gulf of America to either the CHOPS Pipeline or the Poseidon Pipeline.
None of the company’s offshore crude oil pipelines are rate regulated with the exception of Eugene Island, which is regulated by the FERC.
High Island: The High Island Offshore System (‘HIOS’) transports natural gas from producing fields located in the Galveston, Garden Banks, West Cameron, High Island and East Breaks areas of the Gulf of America to the Kinetica Energy Express. HIOS includes 152 miles of pipeline and eight pipeline junction and service platforms that are regulated by the FERC. In addition, this system includes the 86-mile East Breaks Gathering System, which connects HIOS to the Hoover-Diana deepwater platform located in Alaminos Canyon Block 25.
Anaconda: The Anaconda Gathering System gathers natural gas from producing fields located in the Green Canyon area in the Gulf of America, as well as the King’s Quay FPS, which supports the Khaleesi, Mormont and Samurai field developments, to the Nautilus System.
Green Canyon: The Green Canyon Laterals are a collection of small diameter pipelines that gather natural gas for delivery to HIOS and various other downstream pipelines.
Manta Ray: The Manta Ray Offshore Gathering System gathers natural gas from producing fields located in the Green Canyon, Southern Green Canyon, Ship Shoal, South Timbalier and Ewing Bank areas of the Gulf of America for delivery to numerous downstream pipelines, including the Nautilus System. This system includes three pipeline junction platforms.
Nautilus: The Nautilus System connects the Anaconda Gathering system and Manta Ray Offshore Gathering System to the Neptune natural gas processing plant located in south Louisiana.
Offshore Hub Platforms
Offshore Hub platforms are typically used to interconnect the offshore pipeline network; provide an efficient means to perform pipeline maintenance; locate compression, separation and production handling equipment and similar assets; and conduct drilling operations during the initial development phase of a crude oil and natural gas property. The results of operations from offshore platform services are primarily dependent upon the level of commodity charges and/or demand-type fees billable to customers. Revenue from commodity charges is based on a fee per unit of volume delivered to the platform (typically per MMcf of natural gas or per barrel of crude oil) multiplied by the total volume of each product delivered. Demand-type fees are similar to firm capacity reservation agreements for a pipeline in that they are charged to a customer regardless of the volume the customer actually delivers to the platform.
Soda and Sulfur Services
The company’s soda and sulfur services segment consist of its Alkali Business and its sulfur services business
Alkali Business
The company produced its products from trona, which it mined at two sites in the Green River Basin in. The company’s Alkali Business owned and operated soda ash production facilities, underground trona ore mines and brine (solution) mining operations and related equipment, logistics and other assets. All the company’s Alkali Business’ mining and processing activities were conducted at its ‘Westvaco’ and ‘Granger’ facilities near Green River, Wyoming.
The company's Westvaco and Granger facilities had a design capacity to produce approximately 4.75 million tons of soda ash and downstream specialty products per year. All mining and processing activities related to its products took place in its facilities located in the Green River Basin. The company's Alkali Business included the following:
Dry Mining of Trona Ore
Trona ore is dry mined underground at the company's Westvaco facility primarily through the operation of its single longwall mining machine. Longwall mining provides higher recovery rates, leading to an extended mine life compared to other dry mining techniques. The development of the tunnels necessary to access and ventilate its longwall is achieved through room and pillar mining, completed primarily by its fleet of borer miners. The ore is conveyed underground to two hoisting operations, where the company travels approximately 1,600 feet vertically to the surface and is either taken directly into the processing facilities or stored on outdoor stockpiles for future consumption.
Secondary Recovery Brine (Solution) Mining
The company brine (solution) mines trona at both its Westvaco and Granger sites using secondary recovery techniques. Its secondary recovery mining begins with the recovery of water streams from its operations and non-trona solids, referred to as insolubles, remaining from the processing of dry mined trona. The water and some insolubles are injected through a number of wells into the old dry mine workings at both the Westvaco and Granger sites. The insolubles settle out while the water travels through the old workings, dissolving trona that remained during previous dry mining. Multiple pumping systems are used to pump the enriched brine to the surface for processing.
Processing of Trona into Finished Alkali Products
The company's Sesqui and Mono plants, located at its Westvaco site, convert dry-mined trona ore into soda ash. Crushing, dissolution in water, filtration, and crystallization techniques are employed to produce the desired final products. In the Mono plant process, the ore is calcined with heat prior to dissolution to convert the trona to soda ash by the removal of water and carbon dioxide. A final drying step using steam produces a dense soda ash product from the Mono process. In its Sesqui plant, the calcination is performed at the end of the process, producing a light density soda ash that is preferred in applications desiring increased absorptivity. The Sesqui process also has the ability to produce refined sodium sesquicarbonate, which the company sells under the names S-Carb and Sesqui, for use as a buffer in animal feed formulations and in cleaning and personal care applications.
Brine (solution) mined trona is converted into dense soda ash in the company’s evaporation, lime, decahydrate crystallization, and monohydrate crystallization (‘ELDM’) operation at the Westvaco site and at its Granger facility. The steps to produce soda ash are similar to the dry mined processes, except the crushing and dissolving steps are eliminated because the trona is already in a water solution as it leaves the mine.
Intermediate, semi-processed products are extracted from the company’s soda ash processes at Westvaco at strategic locations for use as feedstocks for production of sodium bicarbonate and 50% caustic soda (NaOH).
Marketing, Sale and Distribution of Alkali Products
All the company's alkali products were produced and transported from its facilities in the Green River Basin via rail or truck to either its customers in North America, or to its leased shipping terminal in Portland, Oregon, where they were loaded onto ocean-going vessels to be sold and delivered to its other customers. The company operated a fleet of approximately 4,100 covered hopper cars used to transport over 94% of the alkali products from the Green River facilities via a single rail line owned and operated by Union Pacific Railroad. The company leased these railcars from banks and leasing companies under agreements with varying term lengths.
Sulfur Services Business
The company's sulfur services business primarily provides sulfur removal services, whereby it processes high sulfur, or sour, gas streams generated from crude oil processing operations to remove sulfur at 11 refining or petrochemical processing facilities located mainly in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Montana, and Utah. The company operates storage and transportation assets in relation to those services, and sells NaHS and NaOH, also known as caustic soda, to large industrial and commercial companies.
To provide sulfur removal services, the company applies its proprietary technology, which uses large quantities of caustic soda, the primary raw material used in its process, to act as a scrubbing agent under prescribed temperature and pressure to remove sulfur. Sulfur removal in a refinery is a key factor in optimizing the production of refined products such as gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel. The company's sulfur removal technology returns a clean, sulfur-free hydrocarbon stream to the refinery for further processing into refined products and simultaneously produces NaHS. The resultant NaHS constitutes the sole consideration the company receives for its sulfur removal services. A majority of the NaHS it receives is sourced from refineries owned and operated by large companies, including Phillips 66, CITGO, HollyFrontier, Calumet, and Ergon.
The company's 11 sulfur removal services contracts have an average remaining term of approximately three years. Its sulfur services footprint includes NaHS and caustic soda terminals in the Gulf Coast, the Southwest, Montana, Utah, British Columbia, and South America. In conjunction with its onshore facilities and transportation segment, the company sells and delivers NaHS and caustic soda to over 105 customers via railcars, ships, barges, and trucks. The company is one of the largest marketers of NaHS in North and South America.
NaHS is used in the specialty chemicals business, including plastic additives, dyes, and personal care products, as well as in the pulp and paper business and in connection with mining operations, such as separating copper from molybdenum and in the mining of nickel and gold, as well as bauxite refining for aluminum. NaHS has also gained acceptance in environmental applications, including waste treatment programs requiring stabilization and reduction of heavy and toxic metals, and flue gas scrubbing. Additionally, NaHS can be used for removing hair from hides at the beginning of the tannery process.
Caustic soda is used in many of the same industries as NaHS. Many applications require both chemicals for use in the same process. For example, caustic soda can increase the yields in bauxite refining, pulp manufacturing and in the recovery of copper, gold and nickel. Caustic soda is also used as a cleaning agent (when combined with water and heated) for process equipment and storage tanks at refineries.
Customers - Alkali Business
The company’s natural soda ash was sold to a diverse customer base in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the U.K., South America and Asia.
Customers - Sulfur Services Business
The company sells its NaHS to customers in a variety of industries, with the largest customers involved in the mining of base metals, primarily copper and molybdenum, and the production of pulp and paper. It sells to customers in the copper mining industry in the western U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The company also exports NaHS to South America for sale to mining customers in Peru and Chile. Many of the industries that its NaHS customers are in, such as copper mining and the pulp and paper industry, participate in global markets for their products. As a result, this creates an indirect exposure for NaHS to global demand for the end products of its customers.
The company sells caustic soda to many of the same customers who purchase NaHS, as well as to some of the refineries in which it operates.
The company's soda and sulfur services segments are not dependent on any single or small group of customers.
Marine Transportation
The company's marine transportation segment consists of its inland marine fleet, which transports intermediate refined petroleum products, including asphalt, principally serving refineries and storage terminals along the Gulf Coast, Intracoastal Canal, and western river systems of the U.S., primarily along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The company also includes its offshore marine fleet, which transports crude oil and refined petroleum products, principally serving refineries and storage terminals along the Gulf Coast, Eastern Seaboard, Great Lakes, and Caribbean. Additionally, the company operates its modern, double-hulled tanker, M/T American Phoenix. All its vessels operate under the U.S. flag and are qualified for domestic trade under the Jones Act.
Customers
The company's marine customers are primarily refiners, as well as large energy companies. In 2024, approximately 95% of the revenue it generated stemmed from contracts with refiners.
Time charters, which insulate the company from revenue fluctuations caused by weather and navigational delays, as well as temporary market declines, represented over 95% of its marine transportation revenues under contracts during 2024. During that year, approximately 76% of its marine transportation revenues were from term contracts, while 24% were from spot contracts.
Onshore Facilities and Transportation
The company provides onshore facilities and transportation services to Gulf Coast crude oil refiners and producers through a combination of purchasing, transporting, storing, blending, and marketing crude oil and refined products, primarily fuel oil, asphalt, and, at times, other heavy refined products. In connection with these services, the company utilizes its increasingly integrated portfolio of logistical assets, which consists of pipelines, trucks, terminals, barges, and rail unloading facilities. The integrated nature of its onshore facilities and transportation assets is particularly evident in areas, such as Louisiana and Texas.
The company's crude oil onshore facilities and transportation operations are concentrated in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. The company provides services that include the gathering of crude oil from producers at the wellhead, transporting crude oil by gathering line, truck, and barge to pipeline injection points, transporting crude oil for its gathering and marketing operations, and marketing crude oil to refiners.
The company also has the ability to gather refined products from refineries, transport refined products via pipeline, truck, barge, and railcar, and sell refined products to customers in wholesale markets. For certain of these services, the company generates fee-based income related to the transportation services provided. In some cases, the company also realizes a profit equal to the difference between the price at which it sells the crude oil and petroleum products and the price at which it purchases them, less the associated costs of aggregation and transportation. The most substantial component of the costs incurred while aggregating crude oil and petroleum products relates to operating its fleet of owned and leased trucks and incurring other transportation-related costs.
These operations help to ensure, among other things, a base supply source for the company's crude oil pipeline systems, refinery customers, and other shippers, while providing its producer customers with a market outlet for their production. By utilizing its network of pipelines, trucks, rail unloading facilities, barges, tanks, and terminals, the company is able to provide transportation-related services to, and in many cases back-to-back gathering and marketing arrangements with, crude oil refiners and producers.
Additionally, the company's crude oil and petroleum product gathering and marketing expertise and knowledge base provide it with the ability to capitalize on opportunities that arise from time to time in its market areas. As of December 31, 2024, the company gathers and markets approximately 22,000 Bbls/day of crude oil and petroleum products, most of which is produced from large resource basins throughout Texas and the Gulf Coast. The company’s crude oil pipelines transport many of these barrels, as well as barrels for third-party producers and refiners, for which it charges fees for its transportation services.
Onshore Crude Oil Pipelines
Through its onshore pipeline systems and related assets, the company owns and operates pipelines that transport crude oil for its gathering and marketing operations, as well as for other shippers, pursuant to tariff rates regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) or the Railroad Commission of Texas (TXRRC). Accordingly, the company offers transportation services to any shipper of crude oil, provided that the products tendered for transportation satisfy the conditions and specifications contained in the applicable tariff. Pipeline revenues are a function of the level of throughput, as well as the point where the crude oil is injected into the pipeline and the delivery point.
The four onshore common carrier crude oil pipeline systems the company owns and operates are the Texas System, the Louisiana System, the Jay System, and the Mississippi System.
The company's Texas System takes delivery of crude oil volumes at Texas City, which includes the capability of receiving various Gulf of America pipeline volumes, for delivery to its Webster, Texas facility, which ultimately connects to other crude oil pipelines. The Texas System also transports crude oil from Hastings Junction, located south of Houston, Texas, to several delivery points near Houston, including its Webster, Texas facility. The company earns a tariff for its transportation services, with the tariff rate per barrel of crude oil varying based on the distance from the injection point to the delivery point.
The company's Louisiana System connects the Anchorage Tank Farm to its Port of Baton Rouge Terminal, which was built to service Exxon Mobil Corporation’s Baton Rouge refinery, one of the largest refinery complexes in North America, with more than 500,000 Bbls/day of refining capacity. This connection allows for the bidirectional flow of crude oil, intermediates, and refined products between the Anchorage Tank Farm and the terminal via a dedicated crude oil pipeline and a dedicated intermediates pipeline.
The Louisiana System also transports crude oil from Port Hudson to its Baton Rouge Scenic Station rail unloading facility and continues downstream to the Anchorage Tank Farm. This pipeline system serves as a key asset in the company's integrated Baton Rouge area midstream infrastructure.
The company's Jay System provides crude oil shippers access to refineries, pipelines, and storage near Mobile, Alabama. This system also includes gathering connections, additional crude oil storage capacity of approximately 20,000 barrels in the field, an interconnect with its Walnut Hill rail facility, a delivery connection to a refinery in Alabama, and an interconnection to another common carrier pipeline that delivers crude oil into Mississippi.
The company's Mississippi System provides shippers of crude oil in Mississippi with indirect access to refineries, pipelines, storage, terminals, and other crude oil infrastructure located in the Midwest. This system is adjacent to several crude oil fields that are in various phases of production through a tertiary recovery strategy, including CO2 injection and flooding. The company provides transportation services on its Mississippi pipeline through an incentive tariff, which stipulates that the average rate per barrel charged during any month decreases as its aggregate throughput for that month increases above specified thresholds.
Other Onshore Facilities and Transportation Operations
The company owns four operational crude oil rail unloading facilities located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Raceland, Louisiana; Walnut Hill, Florida; and Natchez, Mississippi, which provide synergies to its existing asset footprint. The company generally earns a fee for unloading railcars at these facilities. Three of these facilities—Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Raceland, Louisiana; and Walnut Hill, Florida—are directly connected to the company's existing integrated crude oil pipeline and terminal infrastructure.
Within its onshore facilities and transportation business segment, the company employs many types of logistically flexible assets. These assets include a suite of trucks and trailers, as well as terminals and other tankage, with approximately 4.2 million barrels of leased and owned storage capacity in multiple locations along the Gulf Coast, accessible by pipeline, truck, rail, or barge, in addition to tankage related to its crude oil pipelines.
Business Strategy
The company's primary business strategy is to provide an integrated suite of services to crude oil and natural gas producers and refiners, as well as to supply NaHS and caustic soda to industrial and commercial enterprises. The company intends to execute this strategy by identifying and exploiting incremental profit opportunities, including cost synergies, across an increasingly integrated footprint; economically expanding its pipeline and terminal operations by utilizing capacity available on its existing assets that requires minimal to no additional investment; optimizing its existing assets and creating synergies through additional commercial and operational advancements; leveraging customer relationships across business segments; attracting new customers and expanding the scope of services offered to existing customers; expanding the geographic reach of its businesses; evaluating internal and third-party growth opportunities, including asset and business acquisitions, that leverage its core competencies and strengths and further integrate its businesses; and focusing on health, safety, and environmental stewardship, as well as the advancement of its sustainability program.
Regulation
The company’s offshore pipelines, with the exception of its Eugene Island pipeline and HIOS, are neither interstate nor common carrier pipelines. However, these pipelines are subject to federal regulation under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which requires all pipelines operating on or across the outer continental shelf to provide nondiscriminatory transportation service.
The company’s intrastate common carrier pipeline operations in Texas are subject to regulation by the Railroad Commission of Texas (TXRRC).
The company is responsible for monitoring the ownership of its subsidiary that engages in maritime transportation and for taking any remedial action necessary to ensure that no violation of the Jones Act ownership restrictions occurs.
The company’s railcar operations are subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of the Federal Railroad Administration of the DOT, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, as well as other federal and state regulatory agencies.
The safety of the company’s operations at Westvaco were regulated by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (‘MSHA’) and its Granger facility by the Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration (‘Wyoming OSHA’).
The company also complies with worldwide, voluntary standards developed by the International Organization for Standardization (‘ISO’), a nongovernmental organization that promotes the development of standards and serves as a bridging organization for quality standards, such as ISO 9001:2015 for quality management and ISO 22000 for food safety management.
Several of the production operations in the company's Alkali Business were subject to regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Its Westvaco facility was registered to produce food and pharmaceutical grade ingredients, and the company complied with strict Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) requirements in its sodium bicarbonate and sodium sesquicarbonate operations that produce these registered products. The U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act required that parts of the facility producing human food and animal nutrition products comply with more rigorous manufacturing standards.
The company is in substantial compliance with the requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, (RCRA) and related state and local laws and regulations, and that it holds all necessary and up-to-date permits, registrations and other authorizations required under such laws and regulations.
The company’s crude oil pipelines are subject to construction, installation, operation and safety regulation by the U.S. Department of Transportation (‘DOT’) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, or PHMSA, and various other federal, state and local agencies under various provisions of Title 49 of the United States Code and comparable state statutes.
In June 2016, Congress approved new pipeline safety legislation, the ‘Protecting the company’s Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2016,’ or the 2016 PIPES Act, which provides the PHMSA with additional authority to address imminent hazards by imposing emergency restrictions, prohibitions, and safety measures on owners and operators of gas or hazardous liquids pipeline facilities. In December 2020, the ‘Protecting the company’s Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2020,’ or the 2020 PIPES Act, was signed into law.
The company's crude oil, refined products, and soda and sulfur services operations are also subject to the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and comparable state statutes. Additionally, the company is subject to OSHA regulations with respect to its trucking operations.
History
Genesis Energy, L.P. was founded in Delaware in 1996. The company was incorporated in 1996.
