Sentences with phrase «miles of pipeline»

Two stark numbers illustrate the challenge the administration faces in ensuring pipeline safety while pressing ahead with new pipeline projects: 135 federal inspectors oversee 2.6 million miles of pipeline, which means each inspector is responsible for almost enough pipe to circle the Earth.
So far, BP said this morning, 40 percent of the company's 22 miles of pipeline in Prudhoe Bay had been completely inspected.
«There's about a half a million wells and a couple million miles of pipeline, so it's a very big and very complex system,» he said.
It's not like 40,000 miles of pipeline up and turned to dust.
Kinder Morgan Inc. is a midstream energy company that provides crucial infrastructure, owning and operating more than 80,000 miles of pipeline and 155 terminals.
PHMSA is responsible for the oversight of more than 40,000 shippers and more than 2.7 million miles of pipeline.
Almost 2,500 miles of pipeline were added in 2012 to capture methane, carry off wastewater and transport oil.
Since the 1930's, oil companies have routed an estimated twenty - six thousand miles of pipeline throughout the oil - laden Southern parishes and across the Southern coastal wetlands.
In Greene County, about 25 miles of pipeline would run through the towns of New Baltimore, Coxsackie, Athens and Catskill.
The Algonquin project includes 37.4 miles of pipeline in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, most of which would be within or adjacent to existing pipelines.
In the New York state section, there would be about 95 miles of pipeline in the Thruway corridor and 25 miles of lines on private property.
In Ulster County, there would be about 40 miles of pipeline running through Saugerties, the town of Ulster, the city of Kingston, Esopus, Rosendale, New Paltz, Lloyd, Plattekill and Marlborough.
Greene County would have about 25 miles of pipeline run through the towns of New Baltimore, Coxsackie, Athens and Catskill.
All told, in Ulster County, there would be about 40 miles of pipeline running through Saugerties, the town of Ulster, the city of Kingston, Esopus, Rosendale, New Paltz, Lloyd, Plattekill and Marlborough.
Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»
The company will also have to identify and acquire additional conservation land «that provides ecological functions equivalent to the land impacted by the pipeline» such as the nearly two miles of pipeline through pristine Otis State Forest.
The company will pay $ 640,000 to the state, and identify and acquire additional conservation land «that provides ecological functions equivalent to the land impacted by the pipeline» such as the nearly two miles of pipeline through pristine Otis State Forest.
On paper, the TransCanada Corporation now has the Trump administration's blessings to add hundreds of miles of pipeline to allow hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude produced by the Alberta tar sands to flow daily into the U.S., a permission twice denied by President Barack Obama two years ago (by veto and by outright denial of its permit), but it's premature to assume the project will actually get built.
Statewide, more than 610 miles of pipeline could be exposed over the next 25 years, according to one study by Louisiana State University and the Rand Corporation.
NuStar Energy L.P. is the proud owner of 8,643 miles of pipeline and 81 storage and distribution facilities for crude oil, refined products and specialty liquids.
There are 2.5 million miles of pipelines criss - crossing our country, and the age of some of those pipelines is raising concern.
The pipeline operator has more than 84,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas, gasoline, and crude oil in the U.S. and Canada.
According to its website, this is the «largest energy infrastructure in North America,» owning interest or operating more than 80,000 miles of pipelines that transport natural gas, crude oil and more.
He also serves as the lead director of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) which is the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, owning an interest in or operating over 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals.
There are also several hundred thousand miles of pipelines.
KMP owns interest in 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals.
The future of energy in New York involves miles and miles of pipelines carrying natural gas from other states, a notion that has been reinforced both by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the governors of New England states that are also pushing for more pipeline infrastructure.
There are about 500,000 gas wells in the country, said Bradbury, and 300,000 miles of pipelines.
Plus run the world's largest pumping stations and 700 miles of pipelines in Earth's coldest climate.
KMP owns interest in 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals.
Since then, thousands of new wells have been drilled and hundreds of miles of pipelines have been installed in the Marcellus region.
Pouring millions of gallons of oil and dispersants into an area already greatly stressed by upstream pollution, atmospheric fall - out, fifty years of industrial activity (44,000 wells, 33,000 miles of pipelines), shoreline trauma, and ecosystem damage by decades of large - scale fishing is a recipe for short and long - term disaster.
[5:19 p.m. Updated Below you can also read about new federal research concluding that strong hurricanes don't just pose a threat on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, but could threaten some of the thousands of miles of pipelines crisscrossing parts of the seabed in relatively shallow waters.]
«There are 2.5 million miles of pipelines in the U.S. — enough to circle the globe 100 times.
Despite the rapid growth of the oil sands industry, and plans to build or expand more than 10,000 miles of pipelines in the next few years, federal pipeline regulations don't distinguish between dilbit and conventional crude oil.
Even with 2.7 million miles of pipelines across the US, there are plans

Not exact matches

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and environmental activists have been protesting construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,886 - km) pipeline in North Dakota for several months, saying it threatens the water supply and sacred sites.
But the Standing Rock Sioux, whose tribal lands are a half - mile south of the proposed route, have said the pipeline could pollute the tribe's drinking water and desecrate sacred burial and prayer sites.
The state of Nebraska just cleared one of the last hurdles for the Keystone XL pipeline, potentially ending a decade - long saga over the 1,700 - mile pipeline.
The 1,100 - mile (1770.28 - km) pipeline, being built by a group of companies led by Energy Transfer Partners, would be the first to bring Bakken shale from North Dakota directly to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Protesters have been buoyed by the recent success of Native American groups and environmentalists in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale fields into Texas.
With nearly 2.5 million miles of oil, gas and chemical pipelines crisscrossing the country, intrusions into control systems could do more than disrupt deliveries, said Andrew R. Lee, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Jones Walker in New Orleans.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba / VANCOUVER, April 23 (Reuters)- At an Alberta oil loading terminal, a convoy of big rigs are gearing up to haul Canadian crude oil hundreds of miles through bone dry fields across the U.S. border into Montana, where the oil will be transferred to pipelines and rail cars headed south and west.
There is also growing confidence that a gas pipeline due to be built by Russia, stretching 1,100 km (680 miles) from Lahore to the port city of Karachi, will go ahead.
The company has another $ 1.9 billion worth of renovations and new projects in the pipeline: Some 100 miles to the southwest of Roosevelt Field, Simon recently wrapped up a $ 200 million overhaul and expansion of the King of Prussia mall — adding space for 50 more stores in what's already the second - largest mall in the U.S.
The 1,172 - mile pipeline is largely complete outside of North Dakota.
A proposed pipeline would funnel Lake Powell water 140 miles to a growing region of Utah, but opponents question if imported water for the beleaguered Colorado is the best way to meet demand.4 months ago
Energy giant TransCanada originally proposed the Keystone XL pipeline to transport 800,000 barrels daily of tar sands oil through five states from Alberta, Canada, 1,700 miles to Gulf of Mexico refineries in Texas.
Viewed in one dimension, the standoff over construction of a 1,172 - mile, $ US 3.8 billion oil pipeline pits thousands of protesters massed on the prairie to safeguard a sole source of tribal drinking water from the fossil fuel industry and its allies in government and finance.
Trump signed one executive order that commanded the Army Corps of Engineers to issue an easement for the Dakota Access pipeline to cross beneath the Missouri River, the last link needed to complete the 1,172 - mile route from North Dakota to Illinois.
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