North American Pipeline and Oil & Gas Infrastructure Proposals
This is a map depicting all of the following:
1. All known North American pipeline proposals
2. Those pipelines that have yet to be documented by the
EIA's Natural Gas Pipeline Network mapping team
3. EIA documented pipelines more accurately mapped to the county level (i.e., select northeastern pipelines)
4. The current Keystone XL pipeline and the Keystone XL expansion proposal
rectified to the county level in
Nebraska,
South Dakota,
Oklahoma, and Texas
We generated this map by importing JPEGs into ArcMAP 10.2, we then "Fit To Display". Once this was accomplished we anchored the image (i.e., georeferenced) in place using a minimum of
10 control points (Note: All
Root Mean Square (RMS) error reports are available upon request). When JPEGs were overly distorted we then converted or sought out
Portable Network Graphic (PNG) imagery to facilitate more accurate anchoring of imagery. Control points were spatially distributed to insure that nonlinear errors did not resulted a common obstacle to accurate image rectification.
We will be updating this map periodically and it should be noted that all layers are
a priori aggregations of regional pipelines across the 4 categories above. We initiated the work involved in this map in January 2014 and will update it quarterly when necessary.
Imagery sources
1. Northeast -
Long Island Sound,
Montreal to Portland,
Westchester,
Spectra Energy Northeast,
Maritime Northeast-Algonquin-Texas Eastern,
Delaware River Watershed2.
Duluth to The Dakotas,
NYMarc Pipeline,
Mariner East,
Millenium Pipeline Company,
3. British Columbia -
Enbridge,
Spectra/BG,
Coastal,
Tanker Route4. Midwest -
ATEX and Bluegrass,
BlueGrass5. TransCanada/New England -
Portland,
Financial Post,
6.
Alaska Pipelines Historically7.
Rail projects and
primary transport8. Keystone Tar Sands -
Canada,
United States,
9. Gulf Coast -
Florida
10. MarkWest
Houston,
Liberty,
Liberty,
Houston and Majorsville,
11. Texas Oklahoma -
Granite Wash Extension,
12. Ohio -
Spectra Energy*The following is a quote from an email sent to us regarding the Bluegrass Pipeline
"Bluegrass Pipeline which involves both new construction and "repurposed"
existing gas lines from Pennsylvania to Louisiana. It would transport
up to 400,000 barrels of fracked natural gas liquids from Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and West Virginia to the gulf for processing and export. Here is a recent article on the battle over the Kentucky portion of the pipeline.
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/tech/science/environment/kentuckiana-green/2014/04/11/bluegrass-pipeline-kentucky/7588677/
