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They said it was comeing. Hiway is a buzz with tractor-trailer hauling sixty foot length of thirty-six inch pipe. Cushing is a buzz as crews have moved in building huge tanks, Not a few but whole sections full of them. The pipe line is coming in from northwest another forty-eight inch coming in from the northeast. Cushing, Oklahoma. Oil Pipe Line Capital of the World
gitrib
 
(quoted from post at 20:48:24 05/16/10) They said it was comeing. Hiway is a buzz with tractor-trailer hauling sixty foot length of thirty-six inch pipe. Cushing is a buzz as crews have moved in building huge tanks, Not a few but whole sections full of them. The pipe line is coming in from northwest another forty-eight inch coming in from the northeast. Cushing, Oklahoma. Oil Pipe Line Capital of the World
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I think part of that construction will come by me about a mile east. And yeah I heard it was a natural gas pipeline? Quarter section not too far away is full of big orange colored lengths of pipe. Sidebooms and tool shacks are getting laidout.
 
Cushing only stores Crude Oil. The western line comes through the new oil field in Montana & Dakota's. Tanks being built are for Crude Oil.
gitrib
 

Living in OK, I've been around several pretty big pipeline projects, but recently got involved in a REALLY big one.

I'm doing some database work for a subcontractor on a 720 mile long 42 inch line from Wyoming to northern California.

We were having supper one night out in Salt Lake City with the guy in charge of putting in the compressor stations along the way and he said they'd have a booster station in the middle with twin 25,000 horsepower turbine engine boosters!


Howard
 
I remember reading somewhere that they used aircraft engines for the compressor stations because nothing else has near enough power. They last a long time too. Dave
 

Just making conversation - I asked what they had at the head-end, thinking it would take even more power at the start of the line...

He said, we just have a bunch of electrics up there...

I asked why electrics?? (thinking that was like a cattle rancher having a turkey sandwich)

He said there was a huge field of wind generators near there - and the pipeline company wanted to appear as "green" as possible...

I thought that was amusing...


Howard
 
One line is almost complete across eastern SD heading for OK. and Ill. Another is being considered in the western part of the state. This one they are running into trouble because of the fossils that are in that area. The hitch is who is responsible for preserving them and removing them. The lines are coming out of Canada sending the tar sands crude south.
 

Lots more pipelines coming out of Canada but some of that Tar Sands crude is headed for China. They keep purchasing more oil companies.
If there was a more efficient method to extract the tar from the sand. There is more oil in Alberta than in the Middle East.
The tar sands crude is somewhere between asphalt and bunker C.
There is on again/off again talk of using a Candu nuclear reactor to produce extraction and process steam. Instead of burning so much oil to make steam in the process.
Locals don't seem to mind toxic hydrogen sulfide gas, organic chemicals in the ground water and food chain. Scared witless of a sealed and contained nuclear reaction however.
 
I'm no tree hugger by any means but you just got to wonder about the sense of building a pipeline across western Nebraska, right over the Ogalalla Aquifer. That happens to be the largest underground freshwater supply in the United States that irrigates crops in Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma. Or maybe I'm just nervous like anyone after that small leak in the gulf of mexico.
 
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