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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. The pipeline would primarily transport crude oil from the WCSB and Bakken regions.

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Enterprise and Enbridge to proceed with Seaway and Flanagan South oil pipeline extensions; enhanced capacity for Canadian and Bakken crude to Gulf Coast

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The expansion of the reversed Seaway Pipeline will more than double its capacity to 850,000 barrels per day (bpd) by mid-2014 and transport oil originating in the Canadian oil sands and the US Bakken shale from Cushing, Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast at Houston, with an extension to Port Arthur/Beaumont. billion to $2.8

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State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

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Incremental well-to-wheels GHG emissions from WCSB Oil Sands Crudes Compared to Well-to-Wheels GHG Emissions from Displacing Reference Crudes Click to enlarge. Domestic production of crude oil has increased significantly, from approximately 5.5 That portion of the pipeline has already been built. million bpd in 2010 to 6.5

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Canada-based Enbridge to acquire ConocoPhillips’s interest in Seaway Crude Pipeline System for US$1.15B; reversing to carry oil to Gulf Coast

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Enbridge and Enterprise agreed to reverse the direction of crude oil flows on the Seaway pipeline to enable it to transport oil from Cushing, Oklahoma to the US Gulf Coast. million barrels of crude oil tankage on the Texas Gulf Coast and four import docks at two locations. SCPS also includes 6.8 —Patrick D.

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US State Department issues Presidential Permit to TransCanada for Keystone XL

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The permit authorizes TransCanada to construct, to connect, to operate, and to maintain pipeline facilities at the US-Canadian border in Phillips County, Montana for the importation of crude oil. The US Department of State has signed and issued a Presidential Permit to construct the Keystone XL Pipeline.