Have you checked the capacity of the refineries in Montana and Wyoming? I did. About 350,000 barrels a day. Now, I don't know for sure, but I bet they are running over 300,000 barrels/day throughput. What do you want to do with the extra 750,000 barrels?
I know, let's build a giant refinery in Montana to soak up the difference. Now you have another 700,000 plus barrels a day of refined product in Montana. GREAT, THERE IS NO MARKET IN MONTANA OR SURROUNDING STATES FOR THIS PRODUCT. There is also no way to transport this product from Montana to the markets where it is in demand.
The refinery capacity to handle this oil is on the gulf coast. The storage facilities for crude oil and refined product are there or in Oklahoma, which is serviced by pipelines. From there is goes to market VIA EXISITNG PIPELINES to the east coast, the south, and the midwest.
Don't you think the shippers and TransCanada already figured this out?
Calm down will ya.
Why wouldn’t you want to hook oil producers Canada, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas all together via a pipeline route since they plan on building one anyway?
There’s also a pretty serious east-west rail corridor going through CO, NE, IA etc.