CALGARY, Alberta -- Plans to expand a proposed oil pipeline that
would carry Canadian crude oil to Midwestern refineries are not
connected to a "green" hydrogen-powered refinery proposed in Union
County, S.D., by Hyperion Resources of Dallas, a spokeswoman for
the pipeline company said.
TransCanada of Calgary announced in a news release Tuesday that
the Keystone oil pipeline project has secured 155,000 barrels per
day of additional firm contracts to pipe oil from Hardisty,
Alberta, to Cushing Okla.
Hyperion wants to refine 400,000 barrels of Canadian crude a day
into low-sulfur gas and diesel fuel, but the proposed $8 billion
refinery is "not connected to Keystone," TransCanada spokeswoman
Shela Shapiro said.
The Keystone pipeline is proposed to pass through eastern South
Dakota and would cross the Missouri River near Yankton, just a
half-hour's drive from the potential Hyperion site.
Initially, it will transport about 435,000 barrels of crude oil
per day to Wood River and Patoka, Ill. when it comes on line in
late 2009. The expansion would add pump stations and a 294-mile
pipeline from the Nebraska-Kansas border to Cushing and bring total
capacity to 590,000 barrels a day in 2010, the release says.
Plans call for a later extension of the pipeline to the Gulf
Coast.
