The Magellan Midstream terminal facility in North Little Rock.
Magellan Pipeline Co. LP has filed a flurry of condemnation petitions in recent weeks to get access to land where its 12-inch steel pipeline will be buried.
The company, a subsidiary of Magellan Midstream Partners LP of Tulsa, has filed at least five petitions in Sebastian County and two more petitions in Pulaski County in the last three weeks, according to court records.
Not all of the records were immediately available to review by Whispers, but the two filed in Pulaski County showed the price tag for the condemnations appears to be increasing.
Readers might remember that Magellan paid $468 for a piece of property in North Little Rock earlier this year. The two petitions filed in the county recently show the company offered $101,085 and $41,025 for the two sites, which both sit on rural property.
The two sites are also significantly bigger than the 0.17-acre piece that cost $468 — with a combined size of more than 12.8 acres.
But now the company is asking the court to pay a fraction of the offered amounts — $30,390 and $15,256 — after not reaching agreements with the landowners, Westbrook Farms LLC and F&D Ranch LLC.
The Magellan pipeline, which is planned to go online by early 2016, will transport up to 75,000 barrels per day of refined petroleum products, including gasoline and jet fuel, from Magellan’s Fort Smith terminal to Little Rock.
The landowners have not yet responded to the petitions.
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