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North Dakota: Enbridge plans new pipeline (Alberta Clipper)

IN MY HOMETOWN: Enbridge plans new pipeline
Kevin Bonham Grand Forks Herald
Published Monday, December 22, 2008

While the controversial Keystone Pipeline is being built across North Dakota — from Hardisty, Alta., to Illinois and Oklahoma — another pipeline company continues to expand in the region.

Enbridge Energy continues to conduct draft Environmental Impact Statement hearings across Minnesota on the proposed Alberta Clipper Pipeline Project, a crude oil pipeline providing service between Alberta and Superior, Wis. Recent hearings were held in Thief River Falls and Wilton, Minn., near Bemidji.

The 36-inch pipeline is expected to be in service by mid-2010. The pipeline right of way enters the U.S. at Neche, N.D., in Pembina County. It extends through the Minnesota counties of Kittson, Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Polk, Clearwater, Beltrami, on through the Grand Rapids and Duluth-Superior areas and then into Wisconsin and Illinois.

The pipeline will have an initial capacity of 450,000 barrels per day and allow for expansions to increase capacity as much as 800,000 bpd.

Enbridge also is finishing work on a 20-inch pipeline between Neche and Clearbrook. That project involves replacing existing pipe along a right of way that now contains five separate pipelines. More than 400 people have been working on that project.

It also is upgrading and expanding its pipeline system along U.S. Highway 2 through North Dakota. By early 2010, the company expects to have the capacity to move 161,000 bpd of crude oil produced in North Dakota and Montana.

The majority of Enbridge’s projects are being expanding along existing right of way. But Keystone Pipeline is building its 30-inch pipeline along a new right of way, from north of Walhalla, N.D., to south of Oakes, N.D.

Crews along the northern end of the Keystone project are taking a two-week holiday break, which began this weekend.

Like Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper project, Keystone’s plan is to move crude oil from the Tar Sands area of northern Alberta to U.S. markets. Keystone’s project runs through 218 miles of eastern North Dakota, along a total route of 2,148 miles. By 2010, it will have a capacity of moving 595,000 bpd.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=98210&section=news

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