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MAY 2, 2013

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) released an updated oil and gas resource assessment for the Bakken Formation and a new assessment for the Three Forks Formation in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, resulting in a two-fold increase in the estimated technically recoverable oil, and a three-fold increase in estimated natural gas.

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MAY 19, 2011

The US Geological Survey will update its 2008 estimate of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas in the US portion of the Bakken Formation, an important domestic petroleum resource located in North Dakota and Montana. The 2008 USGS assessment estimated 3.0 — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar.

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JULY 24, 2011

When released, the Final EIS and related documents will be available through the State Department’s website: [link]. Keystone XL is a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from the US-Canadian border in Montana, through Cushing, Oklahoma, to carry crude from the Canadian oil sands to refineries on the US Gulf Coast.

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MARCH 2, 2013

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. The pipeline would primarily transport crude oil from the WCSB and Bakken regions.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Midwestern Governor’s Association represents Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The European Commission amended the European Fuel Quality Directive 98/70/EC in December 2008, to include the de-carbonization of transport fuel. Earlier post.). excessive flaring).

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FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Incremental well-to-wheels GHG emissions from WCSB Oil Sands Crudes Compared to Well-to-Wheels GHG Emissions from Displacing Reference Crudes Click to enlarge. The document is posted on State’s Keystone project site , which it has run since the beginning of the Keystone XL Presidential permit process in 2008. million bpd in 2010 to 6.5

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