Southern Access Extension Pipeline
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Southern Access Extension Pipeline, also called Enbridge Line 63 Oil Pipeline, is an operating crude oil pipeline the United States.[1]
Location
The pipeline originates in Edmonton, Alberta, and terminates in Pakota, Illinois.
Project details
- Operator: Enbridge[1][2]
- Owner: Illinois Extension Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (IEPC)[3]
- Parent company: Enbridge [65%]; Lincoln Pipeline, L.L.C. [35%][2][4]
- Capacity: 300,000 barrels per day[1][2]
- Length: 270 km[2]
- Diameter: 24 in[2]
- Status: Operating[2]
- Start year: 2020[1]
- Cost: CAN 900 million[5]
- Financing:
- Associated infrastructure:
Background
In 2015, the Illinois Extension Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (IEPC) — a joint venture in which Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. owns 65% and Lincoln Pipeline, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Marathon Pipeline Company, Inc. owns 35% — completed construction of the Southern Access Extension (SAX) Pipeline Project.[5] The 168-mile long, 24-inch-diameter pipeline transports crude oil from Enbridge's Flanagan Terminal near Pontiac, Illinois to a crude oil terminal near Patoka, Illinois.[5] The SAX pipeline project was estimated to cost more than $900 million.[5]
The SAX project is part of Enbridge's Lakehead System Mainline Expansion, which was planned to increase the pipeline capacity to 1,200,000 barrels per day upon the addition of additional pumping horsepower; however, the in-service date of this phase of the SAX was delayed until 2019.[6]
The expansion project was completed by 2020 and added an expansion capability of 100,000 bpd for incremental access to the Patoka market.[7]
Opposition
A number of landowners along the Southern Access pipeline's original proposed route opposed the project. At least one Illinois landowner reportedly refused an Enbridge offer to $6,000 per acre for a permanent easement, plus $1,8000 per acre for a temporary right-of-way during construction.[8] Enbridge did successfully negotiate contracts with all 321 Wisconsin landowners in the pipeline's route, and at least 560 Illinois landowners.[8] Enbridge sought authority from the Illinois Commerce Commission to condemn land along the pipeline's route in cases in which landowners refused to permit an easement.[8]
Environmental Impact
In 2009, Enbridge affiliate Enbridge Energy Partners agreed to a $1.1 million settlement in a lawsuit after the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources cited nearly 100 violations of laws protecting the environment during the course of constructing the pipeline.[9]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Southern Access Crude Oil Pipeline, A Barrel Full, accessed September 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Enbridge’s Energy Infrastructure Assets Enbridge, July 22, 2020
- ↑ "Southern Access Extension".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "2015 U.S. Oil Pipeline Report". North American Energy Pipelines. 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Southern Access Extension Pipeline Project, Enbridge, accessed October 2017
- ↑ 2016 Annual Report, Enbridge, accessed October 2017
- ↑ "Market access". Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Pipeline plan draws critics among lawndowners, Lake Expo, 25 May 2008
- ↑ Enbridge mapping possible 'twin' of major tar sands line through Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Journal, 8 Nov. 2015
