TEPPCO Partners, L.P. Provides Update of Throughput Rates for Pipelines Affected by Hurricane Rita

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2005--TEPPCO Partners, L.P. (NYSE:TPP), today reported that it has increased the throughput rates on its mainline refined products system, which has been operating at reduced rates as a result of Hurricane Rita.

The 230,000 barrel per day capacity, 20-inch diameter mainline system, which primarily delivers liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs) and gasoline from the Texas Gulf Coast to the Midwest, is pumping from the company's Mont Belvieu, Texas, storage facility at approximately 60 percent of normal operating capacity as of Oct. 2, 2005.

TEPPCO's 110,000 barrel per day capacity, 14-inch and 16-inch diameter pipelines, which primarily deliver distillates and gasoline from the Texas Gulf Coast to the Midwest, are pumping at approximately 75 percent of normal operating capacity from the company's Baytown, Texas, terminal.

TEPPCO is also installing additional generators at its Beaumont, Texas, facility, which would enable receipt and delivery of refined products out of tankage at the terminal. The company is working with local utilities and government officials in an effort to restore commercial power to the Beaumont terminal and the Newton, Texas, pump station within the next week, which would enable the mainline system to resume full operation. TEPPCO is making deliveries at all of its terminal locations with the exception of Todhunter, Ohio.

TEPPCO and Marathon's joint venture Centennial Pipeline, a 26-inch diameter refined products pipeline from Beaumont to Creal Springs, Ill., resumed operating at its normal capacity on Oct. 1, 2005.

TEPPCO Partners, L.P. is a publicly traded partnership, which conducts business through various subsidiary operating companies. TEPPCO owns and operates one of the largest common carrier pipelines of refined petroleum products and liquefied petroleum gases in the United States; owns and operates petrochemical and natural gas liquid pipelines; is engaged in crude oil transportation, storage, gathering and marketing; owns and operates natural gas gathering systems; and owns 50-percent interests in Seaway Crude Pipeline Company, Centennial Pipeline LLC and Mont Belvieu Storage Partners, L.P., and an undivided ownership interest in the Basin Pipeline. Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of DFI GP Holdings L.P. (a privately owned partnership indirectly controlled by Dan L. Duncan), is the general partner of TEPPCO Partners, L.P. For more information, visit TEPPCO's Web site at www.teppco.com.