Kinder Morgan, a pipeline transportation and energy storage company, bought the terminal in Port Arthur from TGS Development Group in June to provide services to Total Petrochemicals USA .
Kinder Morgan runs the facility that handles petcoke from Total's Port Arthur refinery -- which produces more than 1 million tons a year of the by-product of oil refining.
Total and Kinder Morgan could not be reached for comment outside regular U.S. business hours.