Work on Keystone pipeline scheduled to begin mid-May
Associated Press • February 16, 2009
YANKTON – Work on the TransCanada Keystone oil pipeline in southeast South Dakota is expected to begin in mid-May with several hundred workers using Yankton as construction headquarters for much of the year.
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Spokesman Jeff Rauh says they’ll start in Hutchinson County and work their way south about 130 miles into Nebraska.
The initial work will be locating and marking buried utilities. Other crews will remove topsoil, bury and weld the pipe, and inspect it.
Some pipe has already been laid in northeast South Dakota.
The pipeline will run from Canada through the eastern Dakotas and Nebraska. It will carry about 400,000 barrels of crude oil a day by early next year to refineries in Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma.
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