The family business Charles inherited consisted of an engineering firm, part-interest in a Minnesota refinery, a crude-oil-gathering pipeline in Oklahoma and some cattle ranches.
Marisol Perez Tello and Veronika Mendoza visiting crude-permeated rivers in the area as well as the deteriorating oil pipeline that pumps crude to the Pacific coast.
Now, even though refined plans show an alternate route, environmentalists worry that if the expected 500, 000 to 700, 000 barrels of crude oil flow through the pipeline each day, leaks could contaminate the water and soil.
The pipeline is transporting crude oil from Greece to a refinery at Skopje, which was bought in 1999 by Hellenic Petroleum, the Greek state oil company.
Associated with LOOP are Clovelly Dome, a 40-million-barrel salt cavern storage facility, and the Capline pipeline, which is the largest pipeline system delivering crude oil from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest.
Houston-based Kinder Morgan operates and owns approximately 24, 000 miles of natural gas pipelines, 8, 000 miles of pipelines that transport refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and more than 2, 000 miles of pipeline that transports crude oil.
The Egyptian army has beefed up patrols of the 200-mile Sumed pipeline, which carries crude oil from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
The agency said Enbridge Inc. took more than 17 hours to shut down operations after the 30-inch-diameter pipeline ruptured and released crude oil into a wetland area near Marshall, Michigan, said NTSB Chairwoman Deborah A.P.
The second pipeline is designed to carry crude oil cargoes that dock in Kyaukpyu.
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Of course the pipeline companies themselves are rushing to build new pipeline capacity to help alleviate these crude oil bottlenecks.
In the wake of Friday's release of thousands of barrels of oil from the Pegasus pipeline, black crude was seen soaking lawns and streaming down residential streets in the community north of the state capital, Little Rock.
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Rail and supporting non-pipeline modes should be capable, as was projected in 2011, of providing the capacity needed to transport all incremental Western Canadian and Bakken crude oil production to markets if there were no additional pipeline projects approved.
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Longer term limitations also depend upon whether pipeline projects that are located exclusively in Canada proceed (such as the proposed Northern Gateway, the Trans Mountain expansion, and the TransCanada proposal to ship crude oil east to Ontario on a converted natural gas pipeline).
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The US state of Arkansas has launched an investigation into the rupture of an Exxon Mobil oil pipeline that spilled thousands of barrels of crude.
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One positive caveat: Prices for Canadian Heavy are discounted now because of the shortage of pipeline capacity for carrying heavy oil sands crude out of western Canada.
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Pipeline operators commonly hedge the value of the crude oil flowing through their pipelines.
More than 4 million barrels of crude oil a day are shipped through the canal or an adjacent pipeline.
Dozens of small oil and gas producers across Oklahoma and the Midwest are suing Goldman Sachs, BP and ConocoPhillips, claiming the defendants conspired to defraud them out of proceeds for crude oil they delivered just before the collapse of Oklahoma-based pipeline giant Semgroup in the summer of 2008.
Semgroup handles more than 500, 000 barrels of crude oil a day in the U.S., operates two pipeline systems and has 6.7 million barrels of oil storage capacity.
U.S. and Iraqi officials agree that smuggling of crude oil seems to be less than was previously thought, and some of the pipeline failures that were routinely put down to acts of sabotage may have been due to corrosion or faulty welding.
South Sudan, for years the largest oil producer in the region and locked in an oil dispute with Sudan, now wants to send crude out through Kenya on a pipeline to a proposed new port in Lamu (see map).
It found a good supply of medium-grade crude but had to shut in the well for lack of a pipeline to get the oil to market.
For example, Frontier recently announced access to a new pipeline that will eventually allow its Cheyenne, Wyoming, refinery to transport Canadian crude oil.
Competition will be tough: tariffs on the new pipeline are ten times lower than for the line through Chechnya, and the crude oil received at Supsa, known as Azeri Light, is of higher quality than Russia's Urals Blend that flows via Novorossiisk.
For example, some 1, 000 barrels of crude oil, water and gas mixture poured onto the tundra after a 2-foot gash formed in a pipeline in November 2009.
The company that operates the Trans Alaska Pipeline told operators on the North Slope to cut crude production by 95%, after discovering an oil leak.
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