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According to specifications provided in Keystone XL's Montana Major Facilities Siting Act application, TransCanada will use 36-inch diameter steel pipe treated inside and out with a corrosion-resistant coating. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems--a satellite-based system managed from Operations Control Center in Calgary--will operate the pipeline and provide remote emergency shutdown of valves when leaks are detected.
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Everything about lransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline can be described in superlatives.
But words like "huge," "mammoth" or "gargantuan" seem paltry descriptions of a 1,980-mile-long, $7.2 billion project with a capacity to carry 900,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Hardisty, Alberta,...See the full content of this document
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