Dakota Access Crude Oil Pipeline

Summary Information

• Source: Bakken/Three Forks
• Destination: Patoka
• Ownership: Energy Transfer
• Website: http://www.energytransfer.com/
• Length: kilometres ( miles)
• Capacity: 630,000 barrels of oil per day
• Crude Type: Bakken

Brief Description

• DAPL was designed to deliver in excess of 450,000 barrels per day of crude oil from the Bakken/Three Forks production area in North Dakota to market centers in the Midwest. This was later expanded to 630,000 bpd.
• DAPL provides shippers with access to Midwestern refineries, unit-train rail loading facilities to facilitate deliveries to East Coast refineries, and the Gulf Coast market through an interconnection in at Patoka Oil Terminal Hub
• The pipeline is be fed by 6 Crude Gathering Terminals in Stanley, Ramberg, Epping, Trenton, Watford City and Johnson Corner, all in North Dakota.

Contractors

• **Matrix:** Engineering, procurement and construction of the six gathering terminals

Pipeline Status

• In operation

History

• 2014 - Phillips 66 Becomes Joint Venture Partner
• 2015 - Terminal contract awarded
• 2017 - Pipeline completed
• 2021 - Capacity expanded by 180,000 bpd

Other Information

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Links

1. EIA Liquids Pipeline Projects 2015-2020
2. EIA Liquids Pipeline Projects 2021-2025
3. Energy Transfer Announces Crude Oil Pipeline Project Connecting Bakken Supplies to Patoka, Illinois and to Gulf Coast Markets
4. Phillips 66 Becomes Joint Venture Partner with Energy Transfer to Build Bakken Crude Oil Pipelines
5. Matrix Service Company Awarded EPC of Crude Gathering Terminals Feeding the Dakota Access Pipeline