Dakota Access Pipeline Ready to Open for Business

May 3, 2017, 11:01 AM UTC

The Dakota Access Pipeline, filling with crude oil in preparation for going into service May 14, should rearrange some crude oil flows and give a boost to the profit margins of oil producers in North Dakota, analysts told Bloomberg BNA.

After delays, politics, protests and litigation, the $3.78 billion 1,172-mile pipeline built by Energy Transfer Partners L.P. will move crude from the Bakken Shale region to a pipeline hub in Patoka, Ill.

The system has another long leg that avoided the politics and protests. It is the $1 billion Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline (ETCO), also set to go ...

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