U.S. Appeals Court Denies Dakota Access Request, Fate of Pipeline Not Decided
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A U.S. appeals court last week denied a request from operators of the Dakota Access oil pipeline to freeze the company’s case while it seeks a Supreme Court review in its battle to keep the line open.
The 570,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) crude oil pipeline is the largest out of the Bakken shale basin of North Dakota and operators, led by Energy Transfer, have been locked in a legal battle with Native American tribes on whether the line can stay open.
Early this year, a three-judge panel with the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the pipeline must undergo an environmental review and that the line’s key permit should be thrown out. The panel, however, did not rule to shut the line.
The denial of the pipeline operators’ request means that the panel’s previous decision is not locked in if Dakota Access operators return to the appeals court, and they could receive a different group of judges to decide on its legal case.
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is continuing to run while its legal case plays out, but it faces the possibility of a shutdown order from a U.S. District Court. That decision is expected later this month.
Source: Reuters
About Energy Transfer
Energy Transfer owns and operates one of the largest and most diversified portfolios of energy assets in the United States, with a strategic footprint in all of the major domestic production basins. ET is a publicly traded limited partnership with core operations that include complementary natural gas midstream, intrastate and interstate transportation and storage assets; crude oil, NGL and refined product transportation and terminalling assets; NGL fractionation; and various acquisition and marketing assets. ET, through its ownership of Energy Transfer Operating, also owns Lake Charles LNG Company, as well as the general partner interests, the incentive distribution rights and 28.5 million common units of Sunoco, and the general partner interests and 46.1 million common units of USA Compression Partners.
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