First, rail has been proven much more dangerous than pipeline transport.
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The drawback: It is considerably more expensive than pipeline transport.
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It studied carbon-dioxide flooding but figured that buying the CO2 and building a pipeline to transport it would eat up profits.
In addition to producing oil, Kenya may also prove to be a natural location for a pipeline to transport oil from southern Sudan to the coast.
Unrest in Egypt mattered because of the Suez Canal and the Suez-Mediterranean Pipeline, which together transport almost 2 million barrels of oil per day.
Also looming is a decision whether to grant a permit to the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would transport carbon-laden tar sands oil from Canada to Texas.
In addition, OMV is the driving force behind the Nabucco pipeline project which will transport gas from Iran's Caspian Sea directly to Europe when completed in 2011.
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Among other issues, more economists now believe the Obama administration should approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. The percentage supporting such a plan grew to 78 percent in the latest poll, up from 69 percent previously.
While not all mine water is chemically suitable for fracking and a mine discharge has to be close enough to a well pad to make transport via truck or pipeline economical experts believe Pennsylvania has more than enough polluted mine water to meet the needs of the drilling industry.
Sirius proposes to process the ore at a site at Wilton, near Middlesbrough, and plans to transport it via a steel pipeline buried a minimum of 3ft 11in (1.2 m) below ground.
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Transport by rail costs more than by pipeline, but routing is more flexible and can begin almost immediately.
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Mercosur has already stimulated efforts to improve transport and energy links a pipeline from Bolivia's ample gas fields to energy-hungry Brazil was completed last year, for example.
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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The addition of advanced pipeline systems, like KeystoneXL, will help to improve these numbers even further, expanding our vital pipeline infrastructure in a manner that allows us to safely transport more of the energy that our economy relies upon to stay competitive.
For example, Frontier recently announced access to a new pipeline that will eventually allow its Cheyenne, Wyoming, refinery to transport Canadian crude oil.
So, as public funding for big capital projects takes a hit from the decade of austerity now under way, and with scarce capital taken up more often with major transport priorities, what do you think should be put in the pipeline for the next grand projects that will define modern Scotland?
Immediately upon completion, the pipeline will have the capacity to carry 700, 000 barrels per day (bpd) and ultimately the ability to transport 900, 000 bpd.
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