Seaway Pipeline expansion completed (150MBPD to 400MBPD)

Seaway Crude Oil Pipeline Company LLC announced that service on the 500-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast resumed today, with approximately 400,000 barrels per day ("BPD") of capacity now available to shippers. Service was suspended on January 2, 2013 so that the remaining pump station connections could be completed allowing capacity to be increased from approximately 150,000 BPD.

Seaway Crude Pipeline Company LLC (Seaway) is a 50/50 joint venture between Enterprise Products Partners L.P., the operator, and Enbridge Inc., which purchased its ownership interest from ConocoPhillips on November 16, 2011. The Seaway system includes a 500-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Freeport, Texas area, and a terminal and distribution crude oil network originating in Texas City, Texas that serves all of the refineries in the Greater Houston area.

On May 17, 2012 Enterprise and Enbridge completed a project to reverse the flow direction of the Seaway Pipeline, allowing it to transport crude oil from the bottlenecked Cushing, Oklahoma hub to the vast refinery complex along the Gulf Coast near Houston. The first volumes arrived at the Jones Creek terminal, just north of Freeport, on June 6, 2012. In reversed service the line has a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day (BPD). Following pump station additions and modifications, anticipated to be completed in January 2013, the capacity of the reversed Seaway Pipeline will increase to approximately 400,000 BPD of crude oil, assuming a mix of light and heavy grades.

During a binding open commitment period held January 4, 2012 to February 10, 2012, shippers executed long-term, crude oil transportation agreements that provided the support necessary to move forward with construction of a loop (twin) of the Seaway Pipeline. The new pipeline, which is designed to parallel the existing right-of-way from Cushing to the Gulf Coast, is expected to more than double Seaway's capacity to 850,000 BPD by first quarter 2014.

As part of the Seaway reversal and expansion projects, additional pipelines are being constructed that will allow shippers to access Enterprise's ECHO crude oil storage facility in southeast Houston and the Port Arthur/Beaumont refining complex.

Providing southbound capacity to the Gulf Coast from the oversupplied Cushing hub will facilitate the development of crude oil from growing North American basins, reduce the need for imported supplies and promote domestic energy security. Expansion of the Seaway system and its ongoing operation is expected to generate more than 3,000 jobs. Other benefits include increased use of local goods and services and additional tax revenue for the states and communities in which the infrastructure will be located.

http://seawaypipeline.com/

Not because of the policy of the Current Regime squatting in the White Hut, but in spite of it.

Should a northern extension to the Bakken Formation ever completed, and even further north, to Calgary, Alberta, the US would become almost free of imports from other than the North American continent. But there is going to have to be a serious sea change in the governing philosophy for this country.

First act, shut down the Department of Energy, the greatest suppressant to the development of energy independence for the United? States.

MBPD is an industry standard for thousand Barrels per Day

MMBPD is the standard for Million Barrels per Day

also MSCFD is thousand Standard Cubic Feet of Gas per Day,

MMSCFD is Million Standard Cubic Feet of Gas per Day

They come from the old Roman numeral system

M = a thousand

MM = a thousand thousands = a million

“MBPD is an industry standard for thousand Barrels per Day

MMBPD is the standard for Million Barrels per Day

also MSCFD is thousand Standard Cubic Feet of Gas per Day,

MMSCFD is Million Standard Cubic Feet of Gas per Day

They come from the old Roman numeral system

M = a thousand

MM = a thousand thousands = a million”

I went from the oil business using the terms you summarized above, to other businesses using “K” for thousand.

I worked with several petroleum engineers and geologists, many with masters degrees, and they were one smart bunch of guys.

In Roman numerals, Italian and French (Roman) "mille" means thousand. Hence the "M" in engineering usages, oil & gas industries, etc.

However K usage derives from this--

The kilo prefix is derived from the Greek word χίλιοι (chilioi), meaning "thousand".

It was originally adopted by Antoine Lavoisier's group in 1795, and introduced into the metric system in France with its establishment in 1799.

Both M and K have sound bases, so what matter is consistent, understood usages.

So for intelligent people, it pays to know Roman and Greek !!

Since English is becoming the international language for business, commerce, air travel, etc. Perhaps we should introduc "T" for thousand, tausend, etc.

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