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Originally Posted by flyrodfisher
Enbridge's line 3 replacement is a batched pipeline designed to carry sweets, light synthetics, as well as light and high sours.
Keystone XL was designed take dilbit from Hardisty to Steele city in Nebraska.
Two different animals.
Each pipeline is specifically designed AND licensed to transport the product(s) it carries.
For example, a pipeline designed to carry a heavier specific gravity product requires a different HP and pump station configuration from one that transports a light product such as a condensate.....amongst many many other things.
A pipeline that carries a high vapour pressure product requires much more stringent code design and regulatory requirements.
To make it simple...you can't just simply change the product to another unless (A) your pipeline is designed to carry it...AND (B) you have authorization from the regulator to do so.
To further add to the mix...you are carrying that specific product to a location that needs it.
To simply add up the total pipeline capacity tells me that the author may be good at math...but he does not understand the business.
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Great explanation. Agreed.
I wonder if he (the guy that wrote the article) stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night?