DEFINITIONS & INTERPRETATIONS
KEYSTONE PIPELINE SYSTEM: IT CONSISTS OF THE OPERATIONAL “KEYSTONE PIPELINE” (PHASE 1) – MAIN LINE – 30” AND “KEYSTONE – CUSHING EXTENSION” (PHASE 2) – 34” AND TWO PROPOSED KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE EXPANSION SEGMENTS (PHASE 3 – CUSHING TO GULF COAST) AND (PHASE 4 – HARDISTY, ALBERTA, CANADA TO STEELE CITY, NEBRASKA – 34” WHERE IT WILL CONNECT TO PHASE 2 AND 3).
KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE PROJECT: ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2008, THE APPLICANT, TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP. (TransCanada) FILED AN APPLICATION FOR A PRESIDENTIAL PERMIT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION ------OF PIPELINE FACILITIES AT THE BORDER OF THE U.S. AND CANADA FOR THE TRANSPORT OF CRUDE OIL ACROSS THE U.S./CANADA INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY. AND, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE (DOS) PREPARED A FINAL IMPACT STATEMENT (FINAL EIS) FOR THE PROPOSED KEYSTONE XL PROJECT.
TransCanada also requested authorization to construct and operate border crossing facilities at the U.S./Canadian border in Phillips County, Montana, near Morgan, in connection with the the proposed PROJECT that is designed to transport CRUDE OIL produced from oil sands in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) AND OTHER SOURCES to a proposed oil storage facility in Cushing, Oklahoma, and to DELIVERY POINTS NEAR NEDERLAND AND MOORE JUNCTION, TEXAS.
SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFT (SDEIS) CRUDE OIL TRANSPORTED BY THE PROPOSED PROJECT WOULD, FOR THE MOST PART, ORIGINATE WITHIN THE ALBERTA (OIL SANDS) BITUMEN AND THE TYPES OF CRUDE OIL PRODUCED THROUGH PROCESSING OR CONVERTING IT ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
RAW BITUMEN IS SOLID UNDER AMBIENT (ATMOSPHERIC) CONDITIONS
RAW BITUMEN: IT IS A SOLID UNDER A AND THAT MUST BE DILUTED OR CONVERTED TO TRANSPORT VIA PIPELINE. IT’S OIL GRAVITIES RANGE FROM 8 TO 12% API.
UPGRADED BITUMEN – SYNCRUDE (SCO): THIS IS PRODUCED FROM BITUMEN VIA A REFINERY CONVERSION THAT TURNS HEAVY HYDROCARBONS INTO LIGHTER HYDROCARBONS. SCO CAN BE SOUR, BUT IT IS USUALLY A LIGHT, SWEET CRUDE WITHOUT HEAVY FRACTIONS.
DILUTED BITUMEN (DILBIT): THIS IS BITUMEN MIXED WITH A DILUTENT, USUALLY A NATURAL GAS LIQUID SUCH AS CONDENSATE AND DILBIT FEEDSTOCK PROCESSING REQUIRES MORE HEAVY OIL CONVERSION CAPACITY THAN MOST CRUDE OILS AND HAS HIGH LEVELS OF SULFUR AND AROMATICS.
SYNTHETIC BITUMEN (SYNBIT): IT IS A COMBINATION OF BITUMEN AND (SCO).THE PROPERTIES OF (SYNBIT) BLENDS VARY GREATLY.
DILUTED SYNTHETIC BITUMEN (DILSYNBIT): IT IS A COMBINATION OF BITUMEN AND HEAVY CONVENTIONAL CRUDES BLENDED WITH CONDENSATE AND (SCO) PRODUCING A PRODUCT MORE SIMILAR TO CONVENTIONAL CRUDE OIL.
ACCORDING TO KEYSTONE: THE TYPES OF WCSB CRUDE OIL THAT WOULD BE TRANSPORTED BY THE PROPOSED PROJECT WOULD PRIMARILY CONSIST OF SCO AND DILBIT. THE UPGRADING PROCESS FOR SCO AND THE ADDITION OF DILUENT IN DILBIT WOULD OCCUR BEFORE THE OIL WOULD BE DELIVERED TO THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE AT HARDISTY, ALBERTA.
PRECISE COMPOSITION: SCO AND DILBIT THAT WILL VARY BY SHIPPER AND IS CONSIDERED PROPRIETARY INFORMATION. IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH CONVERSION IS DONE BY EACH INDIVIUDAL SHIPPER. AND ONCE SAID COMPOSITION REACHES IT’S DESTINATION NEAR THE GULF COAST OF TEXAS, TransCanada IS NO LONGER INVOLVED.
Note: Isn’t this enough to convince the railroad commission that this is a private transaction not worthy of eminent domain. The shipper has the sco and dilbit put in at Hardisty and controls its destination upon receipt at the Gulf Coast. We need not be concerned with what he does with it thereafter.
PATRIOT OR TRAITOR
PRESIDENT OBAMA
HILLARY CLINTON
GEORGE SOROS
WARREN BUFFET
CONOCO/PHILLIPS
GOVERNOR PERRY
AND
YOU
CAN YOU SHOW ME, AND OTHERS, ANY DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE WHY THE GOVERNOR SHOULD NOT NOW NOTIFY TRANSCANADA OF HIS WITHDRAWAL OF HIS APPROVAL OF ITS STAGE 3 PIPELINE ACROSS TEXAS.
AND, IF NECESSARY, CALL A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE TO DISCUSS WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO PROTECT THE PRIVATE PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZENS FROM A NEW KIND OF “BITUMEN/DILBIT” PIPELINE.
RESPECTFULLY YOURS,
ARNOLD J. NASS, CAPT. USAF. COMBAT VETERAN. WWII. HD 2/46.
506 RICE ROAD, APT 240
TYLER, TEXAS 75703
903/534-07
ABSTRACT:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary.
The oil sands deposits in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) comprise of at least 85% of the total immobile bitumen in place in the world. The major deposits are Athabasca, in north central Alberta; Cold Lake, near the east border of Alberta, almost due east of Athabasca and Peace River, near the northwest corner of Alberta. They were derived from light oils in the southern Alberta and migrated north many years ago.
In the early 1970s I was Exploration Manager for Vanderbilt Resources of Dallas. We had a office and geologist in Calgary, Alberta and drilled a few wells in southern Alberta before the government of Canada asked all of us Americans to go home.
The (WCSB) is a vast very early sedimentary basin underlying 540,000 sq mi of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba, southern Saskatchewan, Alberta, northeastern British Columbia and the southwest corner of the Northwest Territories. It extends the way from the Canadian Shield, near the northeast corner of North Dakota to the west coast of Canada, the east coast of Alaska and north to the Beaufort Sea. It varies in depth from zero on the east to 19,500 ft on the west.
The Canadian Shield is the top of the mountains on which most of the rest of Canada sits and it is rich in many hard minerals.
The Williston Basin is a much younger basin partly within the (WCSB) and covers a good bit of Montana, North and South Dakotas and a small part of southern Saskatchewan in Canada.
Jack Hinckley, President of Vanderbilt Resources and I looked this area over with the idea of opening an office in Williston, North Dakota but didn’t think it would be economical. That was before we knew anything about horizontal drilling
ALASKA NORTH SLOPE (ANS)
The artificial inhibition of U. S. oil production has severe consequences for jobs and economic growth. Congress should immediately act to free the Alaskan oil trade and repeal the prohibition on oil exports. An analysis reveals that the export ban has been an extremely costly proposition. According to Arlon Tussing, then the chief economist for the Senate Interior Committee, the expost ban was adopted by Congress largely out of spite.
Alaskan crude oil is of better quality than most California crudes, but it is still heavier than most of the foreign crude oils it should but cannot replace. However, it can replace the heavy crude oil we purchase from Venezuela and Canada.
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