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Company gets shipping commitments on North Dakota pipeline

By Associated Press
Published March 1, 2014 5:00am ET
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Company gets shipping commitments on North Dakota pipeline
Railroad oil tanker cars are parked along Interstate 787 in downtown Albany, N.Y., on Friday, Feb. 7. (AP Photo/Mike Groll) | Mike Groll

BISMARCK, N.D. — A Canadian company has obtained shipping commitments from oil companies to use the largest-capacity pipeline proposed to date to transport North Dakota crude.

Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge Energy is proposing the $2.6 billion, 612-mile Sandpiper pipeline to carry 225,000 barrels of North Dakota oil daily to a hub in northern Minnesota and 375,000 barrels to one in northwestern Wisconsin.

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