This project includes laying about 109 miles of new eight-inch pipeline from Cherokee to Cushing.
The pipleline will transport production from central and western Oklahoma and interconnect with the company’s crude oil tanks located at Cushing.
It is designed to move 18,000 barrels per day of crude oil with an option to up rate to 35,000 barrels per day, and is expected to be commissioned in March 2012.
The company said that in response to interest from producers with acreage in western Oklahoma, it plans to extend the Great Salt Plains Pipeline (Phase II) further west to serve the Granite Wash and other new tight sands plays.
The second phase of the project would run concurrently with Phase 1 and could be commissioned as soon as mid-2012.
