{"id":94456,"date":"2013-11-27T02:57:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T02:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-approves-new-us-canada-fracked-gas-pipeline-used-to-dilute-tar-sands\/"},"modified":"2013-11-27T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T14:44:31","slug":"obama-approves-new-us-canada-fracked-gas-pipeline-used-to-dilute-tar-sands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/obama-approves-new-us-canada-fracked-gas-pipeline-used-to-dilute-tar-sands\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Approves New US-Canada Fracked Gas Pipeline Used to \u201cDilute Tar Sands\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Horn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although TransCanada’s Keystone XL<\/a> tar sands pipeline has received the lion’s share of media attention, another key border-crossing pipeline benefitting tar sands<\/a> producers was approved on November 19 by the U.S. State Department<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Enter Cochin, Kinder Morgan’s 1,900-mile proposed pipeline<\/a> to transport gas produced via the controversial hydraulic fracturing (\u201cfracking\u201d) <\/a>of the Eagle Ford Shale basin<\/a> in Texas north through Kankakee, Illinois, and eventually into Alberta, Canada, the home of the tar sands.<\/p>\n

Like Keystone XL, the pipeline proposal requires U.S. State Department approval because it crosses the U.S.-Canada border. Unlike Keystone XL \u2014 which would carry diluted tar sands diluted bitumen (\u201cdilbit\u201d)<\/a> south to the Gulf Coast \u2014 Kinder Morgan’s Cochin pipeline would carry the gas condensate (diluent)<\/a> used to dilute the bitumen north to the tar sands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decision allows Kinder Morgan Cochin LLC to proceed with a $260 million plan to reverse and expand an existing pipeline to carry an initial 95,000 barrels a day of condensate,\u201d the Financial Post wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe extra-thick oil is typically cut with 30% condensate so it can move in pipelines. By 2035, producers could require 893,000 barrels a day of the ultra-light oil, with imports making up 786,000 barrels of the total.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Increased demand for diluent among Alberta’s tar sands producers has created a growing market for U.S. producers of natural gas liquids, particularly for fracked gas producers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTotal US natural gasoline exports reached a record volume of 179,000 barrels per day in February as Canada’s thirst for oil sand diluent ramped up,\u201d explained a May 2013 article appearing in Platts<\/a>. \u201dUS natural gasoline production is forecast to increase to roughly 450,000 b\/d by 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Steve Horn Although TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has received the lion’s share of media attention, another key border-crossing pipeline benefitting tar sands producers was approved on November 19 by the U.S. State Department. Enter Cochin, Kinder Morgan’s 1,900-mile proposed pipeline to transport gas produced via the controversial hydraulic fracturing (\u201cfracking\u201d) of the Eagle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-94456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}