A process for reducing the level of elemental sulfur and organic sulfur
pick-up by refined hydrocarbon streams such as gasoline, diesel, jet
fuel, kerosene or fuel additives such as ethers or iso-octane that are
transported through a pipeline used to transport various
sulfur-containing petroleum streams. The oxygen level in the hydrocarbon
stream of interest to be pipelined as well as in at least the first
hydrocarbon stream sequenced immediately ahead of the hydrocarbon stream
of interest is reduced.