"Dude..that's not oil.."
Posted on 12/09/2013 1:27:50 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
HOUSTON — TransCanada has begun moving oil into the Keystone XL pipeline’s southern leg, which runs from Oklahoma to the Texas coast, a company spokesman said Monday.
“TransCanada is pleased to confirm that at approximately 10:04 am Central Time on Saturday, December 7, 2013, the company began to inject oil into the Gulf Coast Project pipeline as it moves closer to the start of commercial service,” TransCanada spokesman Shawn Howard said in an email.
The pipeline owner will need to fill the newly constructed line before it can begin delivering oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast, including those in Houston. TransCanada plans to fill the new pipeline system with about 3 million barrels of oil in the coming weeks, the company said.
The company has said it expects to begin deliveries by the end of the year.
Although TransCanada is still waiting for approval to construct the northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would connect with oil sands fields in Canada, the company has completed the $2.3 billion southern leg.
The line will be capable of bringing up to 700,000 barrels per day of oil to the Gulf Coast, providing more supplies of crude to refineries.
Refineries are eager to see the northern leg of the pipeline completed, since that portion would bring more of the heavy type of oil sands crude that is especially lucrative for them to process. Oil sands crude is currently heavily discounted compared with overseas heavy oil that refineries currently import.
The northern leg requires presidential approval since it crosses an international border.
Representatives from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, 350.org, League of Conservation Voters and Voices for Progress outlined their concerns in a late Monday morning meeting with Kerri-Ann Jones, the assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs.
The closed-door meeting came as the State Department puts the finishing touches on its final supplemental environmental impact statement, following the release of a March draft that concluded that the amount of carbon emissions tied to oil sands development in Canada is unlikely to change much, even if Keystone XL is never built.
The emissions question is critical because President Barack Obama in June declared that he would only approve the $5.4 billion pipeline “if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.”..........................................
"Dude..that's not oil.."
One of these days, I’ll have to go over to Cushing to see what it looks like, with all that oil flowing through the town ... :-) ...
Lots of tanks to look at over there, both North and South of town.
Hurrah!
The really nice thing is that the Canadian crude will be processed in American refineries. I know the loonies will never understand what is happening here. It is called value added manufacturing, a concept beyond beyond the feeble intellectual prowess of Obama.
> The pipeline owner will need to fill the newly constructed line before it can begin delivering oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast, including those in Houston. TransCanada plans to fill the new pipeline system with about 3 million barrels of oil in the coming weeks... it expects to begin deliveries by the end of the year... The line will be capable of bringing up to 700,000 barrels per day of oil to the Gulf Coast, providing more supplies of crude to refineries.
Thanks Cincinatus’ Wife.
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