Posted on 11/06/2015 3:19:04 PM PST by fulltlt
Dakota Access Pipeline, LLC has awarded Michels Pipeline Construction, a Division of Michels Corporation, and Precision Pipeline, LLC construction contracts for multiple segments along the 1,134-mile Dakota Access Pipeline.
Once completed, the project will transport light sweet crude oil from the Bakken and Three Forks production areas in North Dakota to Patoka, IL where shippers will be able to access multiple markets, including Midwest, East Coast and Gulf Coast regions.
Michels and Precision will each construct pipeline segments in North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. Ultimately, Dakota Access will sign construction contracts with up to five union contractors.
As part of the agreement, Brownsville, WI-based Michels Pipeline and Eau Claire, WI-based Precision will use 100% union labor, with half of the workers sourced from local halls in each state the pipeline crosses. In anticipation for the project and 2016 demand, Michels and Precision have made commitments exceeding $200 million to Caterpillar, John Deere and Vermeer for heavy construction and related equipment.
Michels, which has a field office in Cedar Rapids, IA, will construct segments in Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota, totaling 380 miles. Precision will construct segments in Iowa and Illinois, totaling 476 miles. Collectively, Michels and Precision will employ up to 4,000 people per state. The construction companies yet to be named will construct segments in North Dakota.
Dakota Access expects permit approvals by late 2015 with a projected start of construction in early 2016. The pipeline is expected to be in service by late 2016.
XL was to be for Canadian Sands oil, IIRC.
This is going to transport Bakken oil.
Very different.
Oh well, Trump is going to get that XL started soon as he is President.
BP spent over a BILLION to upgrade Whitening for heavy crude from Canada.
Everything helps, but more is better.
This is not related to the Keystone XL bringing in oil from Canada. This will reduce the cost oil now transportation by rail.
Funny thing is it doesn’t go through Nebraska.
There is probably a reason for that:
http://www.daplpipelinefacts.com/about/route.html
This is or was supposed to link up with another line that brings it from Illinois into Beaumont. The other line is an existing one that would be re-purposed.
Do you mean from Steele City, Nebraska?
The Keystone portion the connects East-West to Illinois flow to the East to Illinois.
I had brief peripheral involvement in a project which would reverse-flow an existing line from Illinois or Indiana into Beaumont. A separate project built a new pipeline to bring the oil from Bakken to meet up with this pipeline, establishing a continuous line all the way from Dakota to the Gulf.
I’m assuming this is the other half of that.
This is going to transport Bakken oil.
Very different.
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