Firm applies to build largest pipeline yet from ND
By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press | November 5, 2013 | Updated: November 5, 2013 2:43pm
chron.com
...Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge Energy is proposing the 612-mile Sandpiper pipeline to each day carry 225,000 barrels of oil to a hub in northern Minnesota and 375,000 barrels to one in northwestern Wisconsin. If approved by regulators, it would be the largest pipeline moving oil out of North Dakota, the nation's second-leading producer of oil behind Texas.
North Dakota has more than doubled its oil production in the past two years, closing in on a million barrels of oil a day. But due to the lack of pipeline capacity in the state, about 61 percent of the state's daily oil production is being shipped by rail...
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Sandpiper Project - Enbridge Inc. - Map
enbridge.com
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Company applies to build pipeline from North Dakota
Posted on November 5, 2013 at 2:55 pm by Associated Press
fuelfix.com
...Much of the proposed pipeline’s route follows existing pipeline corridors, and 96 percent of the required right-of-way easements have been obtained from North Dakota landowners, the company said...
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