Pegasus PipelineIn 2006 Mobil Pipeline Company (ExxonMobil) reversed 20 inch Pegasus pipeline from Patoka IL to Beaumont TX, passing through Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. Parts of this pipeline system were built in the 1940's by Mobil Oil Co. The reversed pipeline initially carried 50,000 barrels per day. The rate was raised to 96,000 barrels a day in 2009. The purpose of the reversal was to ship Canadian tar sand crude to Gulf Coast refineries. Patoka gets Canadian tar sand crude oil via Mustang pipeline, which is owned jointly by Enbridge (30%) and ExxonMobil (70%). Patoka also gets Canadian tar sand crude oil via the exisiting Keystone pipeline owned by TransCanada.[1] On March 29, 2013, Pegasus pipeline ruptured in the yard of a suburban Mayflower AR home and spilled 210,000 gallons of tar sand crude oil down the neighborhood streets and into storm drains and ditches that lead to Lake Conway.[2] Although initial news reports indicated ExxonMobil responded quickly, ExxonMobil, like Enbridge in Michigan, denied that illnesses reported by nearby residents within the first week were related to the spill and its odor.[3]
November 11, 2013: VIDEO - Shattered by Oil: Exxon Arkansas Spill and the People Left Behind
October 21, 2013: Exxon is taking its time before restarting Pegasus September 15, 2013: Lawsuits against Exxon for spills in Arkansas, Montana, Alaska September 9, 2013: Dilbit in Exxon's Pegasus May Have Contributed to Pipeline's Rupture August 1, 2013: PHMSA released metallurgical test results on the ruptured pipe. For more:
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November 12, 2013: TransCanada’s Keystone XL Southern Segment: Construction Problems Raise Questions About the Integrity of the Pipeline (Public Citizen)
The Keystone system includes five major pipelines.[4]
Keystone Pipeline Phase 1, predicted to have one leak in ten years, had twelve leaks during its first year of operation.[5] The Gulf Coast Project and Houston Lateral pass through Texas. Texas property owners and volunteers are attempting to halt these. [6] The XL project through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska, requires State Department approval because it crosses the Canadian border. [7] As of April 9, 2013, the project's future has not been officially decided. See news feed on this page. |
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| Energy Transfer has had an on-again off-again plan to convert and reverse its 30-inch Trunkline natural gas pipeline in order to carry tar sand crude oil to the Gulf Coast. An early proposal would have converted and reversed the pipeline from Patoka IL to Buna TX.[9] Next the plan changed to reverse the Trunkline only as far as Boyce LA and to build a connecting pipeline to St. James Parish in Louisiana.[10] Enbridge was involved in this plan for a few months.[11] As of November, 2013, Energy Transfer no longer has a partner and has dropped the plan for a Boyce to St. James extension.[12] |
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Seaway Pipeline Project Map
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