Huge story.
Bakken.com is reporting:
It was a day of celebration on Friday as Canada-based Enbridge and
Houston-based Enterprise Products began the delivery of Canadian tar
sands crude oil to the Houston area through a new pipeline system. The
Seaway Pipeline system twin loop and the new Flanagan South pipeline
connect in Cushing, Oklahoma, with the newly constructed Seaway loop
delivering up to 450,000 barrels of Canadian crude per day.
Currently,
about 250,000 barrels per day arrive in Freeport.
Enterprise executive vice president and COO Jim Teague called the
effort a “heck of a marriage” between Enbridge with its Canadian crude
“supply aggregation” and Enterprise with its “distribution system” to
every refinery in the Texas City, Houston, Beaumont and Port Arthur
regions.
The Seaway Crude Pipeline is a 50-50 joint venture between Enterprise
and Enbridge. The Seaway system includes a 500-mile, 30-inch diameter
pipeline. On May 17, 2012 Enterprise and Enbridge completed a project to
reverse the flow direction of the pipeline, allowing it to transport
crude oil from Cushing, Oklahoma hub to the vast refinery complex along
the Gulf Coast near Houston.
The “loop” portion of the pipeline was
completed in 2014, and was designed to run parallel with the existing
Seaway Pipeline from Cushing to the Gulf Coast. The additional loop is
expected to more than double the Seaway’s capacity to 850,000 barrels
per day.
The Keystone XL was originally scaled to flow a maximum of 700,000 bopd.
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