Keystone Pipeline Projects Slated for Liberty County

LIBERTY, May 18, 2010 - According to the US State Department, TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LLC is proposing to construct and operate a crude oil pipeline from Hardistry (Alberta) Canada south through the United States all the way to Port Arthur and the Ship Channel industries in Houston.

The pipeline varies from 30 inches in diameter to 24 “ in diameter and can deliver 591,000 barrels of oil per day.

The proposed Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion Project is an approximate 2,673-kilometre (1,661-mile), 36-inch crude oil pipeline that would begin at Hardisty, Alberta and extend southeast through Saskatchewan, Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. It would incorporate the 480-kilometre (298-mile) portion of the Keystone Pipeline (Phase II) through Nebraska, Kansas to serve markets at Cushing, Oklahoma before continuing through Oklahoma to a delivery point near existing terminals in Nederland, Texas to serve the Port Arthur, Texas marketplace.

Keystone plans to first construct the 700-kilometres (435-miles) of new pipeline in Oklahoma and Texas. It is anticipated this third phase of Keystone would start construction in the first quarter of 2011 and be complete by the fourth quarter of 2011.

Representatives of the State Department will be on hand to field questions and concerns from the public at the VFW Hall in Liberty, today, Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 7:00 PM.

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