DAPL Expansion Talk? -- October 20, 2018

From The Bismarck Tribune: Dakota Access (DAPL) expansion takes step forward.

• proposed expansion would take pipeline's capacity to 570,000 bopd
• current capacity: around 500,000 bopd
• current pipeline capacity not meeting Bakken's projected needs

The company also had a press release:

• ETP LP subsidiaries
• Dakot Access, LLC ("Dakota Access")
• Energy Transfer Crude Oil Company, LLC ("ETCO")
• origination: Bakken/Three Forks in North Dakota
• termination:
• Patoka, IL
• Nederland, TX
• entire system is known as the "Bakken Pipeline System"
• incremental expansion: no change in pipe -- options --
• additive to make oil "slicker" and move more quickly
• add a bit of additional horsepower to the existing pump stations

In the big scheme of things, I'm not sure what to make of the timing; the incremental increase seems to be trivial.

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The Literature Page

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." 

That quote has been attributed to the 17th century poet, William Congreve’s, in his 1697 poem The Mourning Bride. The quote  has been wrongly attributed to Shakespeare.

However, the more likely source:

• 20 BC
• that's twenty years before the birth of Christ
• that's 1.7 millennia before that 17th century English poet
• Virgil
• Aeneid
• book 5; line 7 -- and even Virgil called it "proverbial" --

Meanwhile, Aeneas was holding a steady course with his navy, confident,
Even while cutting through the waves growing dark from the north wind's gusts.

And while gazing back at the city ablaze with Elissa burning, unfulfilled.

What ignited this huge conflagration lurked unexplained. 
But great love's pain, edged sharp by betrayal,
That is proverbial; as is what a woman can do in her fury.
Teucrians, then, in their hearts, made a grim assessment of omens.

Note:

Queen Dido, queen of Carthage, has been spurned by Aeneas. He is on his way to Italy. Looking back he sees Carthage ablaze with Elissa burning. Elissa is another name for Queen Dido. Meanwhile, the Trojans, in later years, referred to themselves as Teucrians. In most myths, in which King Teucer is mentioned, he is described as being a distant ancestor of the Trojans.

From Virgil's Aeneid, translation by Frederic, Ahl, c. 2007.