ETP -- Bakken To Illinois -- Dakota Access Pipeline -- The Bakken

Updates

March 24, 2015: ETP, Bakken-to-Illinois, Dakota Access Pipeline, miles of pipeline being brought in, stored near Aberdeen, SD; South Dakota state has until December 15, 2015, to make decision.

August 30, 2014: Iowa activists trying to stop the ETP pipeline. 
 

Original Post

Platts is reporting:

Just two months after Koch Pipeline scrapped construction plans for a 250,000 b/d North Dakota-to-Illinois crude pipeline without saying why, some US crude market participants may have deja vu as they review the terms of an open season for a nearly identical pipeline project.

They also might wonder how competitor Energy Transfer Partners expects to get backing for its new crude pipeline that would run a nearly identical route as Koch’s abandoned project. The project is being proposed by ETP subsidiary Dakota Access.

When asked about the project’s validity by Platts, ETP spokeswoman Vicki Granado said:  ”The answers to your questions will be determined by the interest we receive during the open season. I have no further details at this time.”

Koch said last year in a statement that it “intended to explore” a connection for Dakota Express at Patoka, Illinois, to Energy Transfer Partners’ proposed Eastern Gulf Crude Access pipeline (EGCAP) project, which is expected to deliver Bakken crude to Nederland, Texas, from Patoka.

Bakken crude via a proposed Koch's pipeline to Patoka, IL, to tie up with competitor ETP's pipeline to take Bakken crude to Nederland, TX.