Pipeline company Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has announced the first successful commercial shipment of biodiesel to be transported through a pipeline in the US. The shipment saw a 5% biodiesel blend transported from Mississippi to Georgia, and from Mississippi to Virginia, via the Plantation Pipe Line Co., jointly owned by Kinder Morgan (51%) and Exxon Mobil (49%). Whereas fuels such as jet fuel is transported via pipelines throughout the US, biodiesel traditionally is transported by truck, ensuring that it avoids contact with jet fuel, which it can contaminate. The SE is not known as a major market for biodiesel, which even in other parts of the country is a relatively small and struggling fuel product.