The North Dakota Pipeline Company (NDPL) system is a 950-mile (1530 km) crude oil

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system that collects oil from fields in the

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and

North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, So ...

and transports it eastward to other pipeline systems that carry oil to refineries in the Midwest. In addition to collecting oil from wells in the

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, it also connects to a

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pipeline system owned by

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at North Dakota's border with

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. The American pipeline is owned by Enbridge Energy Partners, LP, an organization partly owned by the Canadian company. The pipeline's eastern terminus is in

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where there is a junction with Enbridge's Lakehead System and the

Minnesota Pipeline The Minnesota Pipe Line (or MPL) is a crude oil pipeline that runs from Clearbrook, Minnesota southward to the Twin Cities. Construction began in 2007 after the State of Minnesota approved the building permit, and ended in 2008; it is owned by ...

(ultimately owned by

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System lines

NDPC system

*Line 81 *Line 82 *Line 83 *Line 84 *Line 85 *Line 85A *Line 86 *Line 87 *Line 88 * Sandpiper pipeline (proposed)

Interconnect system

*Line 26

References

External links

Enbridge Energy Partners liquid pipeline map for North Dakota Pipeline Company, LLCEnbridge Energy Partners, L.P.
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