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So You Want to Build a Pipeline? (Who are you going to ask?) Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute 5 th Annual Conference Casper, WY Brian Jeffries Executive Director

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So You Want to Build a Pipeline? (Who are you going to ask?)

Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute

5th Annual Conference Casper, WY Brian Jeffries

Executive Director

Scoped Field Reservoir Combinations and Sources (and Sequestration sites)

Total 924 miles of pipeline in design

596 miles of 16” 165 miles of 12” 135 miles of 10” 28 miles of 8” 12 counties impacted BLM, State, Indian and Fee Land Numerous roads, rivers, ditches, pipelines to be

crossed

So how hard can it be to get from Point A to Point B?

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Big Horn Basin Assumptions/Results

• Oil price = $100

• CO2 price = $2.50

• Incremental oil produced = 171 MM bbls

• Incremental state revenue = $2.76 Billion

At least four things a project needs

• Product to move

• Customers

• Financing

• Origin and Destination (a route)

ROW Providers

Grantor Method

BLM Permit

USFS Permit

State of Wyoming Permit

Indian Reservation Negotiated

Private Negotiated

A source for the maps that follow

Bighorn Basin Resource Management Plan Revision Project Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement April 2011 BLM Wyoming - Cody & Worland Field Offices

Feds dominate surface ownership

Be aware of fish and wildlife

Be aware of special status species

Be aware of soils and erosion

Be aware of back country byways

Be aware of paleontological issues

Be aware of existing ROWs

Be aware of historic trails

Be aware of motor travel restrictions

Be aware of heritage and visual issues

Be aware of wilderness study areas

Short list permits/consultations (p 1 of 8)

Who What Comments

BLM Right of Way grant and temporary use permit

BLM Plan of development

BLM Consultation and concurrence for Section 106 compliance process

Plan for cultural resources encountered

Short list permits/consultations (p 2 of 8)

Who What Comments

BLM Archeological Resources Protection Act and Cultural Resources Permit

Permit to excavate or remove resources

BLM Sensitive Species Consultation

Habitat or species specific surveys

USFWS Consultation on Endangered Species Act and Biological Opinion

Short list permits/consultations (p 3 of 8)

Who What Comments

USFWS Potential Class 1 Air Impact Review

Will air modeling be required?

Corp of Engineers Nationwide Permit under Clean Water Act

Applies to wetlands and water bodies encountered

Corp of Engineers Section 10 of rivers and harbors Act

Pipeline permit to cross navigable waterways

Short list permits/consultations (p 4 of 8)

Who What Comments

USDOT Encroachment Permit

Highway crossings

USDOT Pipeline safety Integrity management program

EPA Water quality certification

Wetlands or streams crossed

EPA National pollutant discharge

construction and hydro test discharges

Short list permits/consultations (p 5 of 8)

Who What Comments

USATF Storage and use of explosives

Potential blasting during construction

WYSHPO Clearance regarding historical resources

WYDEQ Permit for temporary turbidity increase

Stream crossings

Short list permits/consultations (p 6 of 8)

Who What Comments

WYDEQ Permit for temporary discharge

Hydro testing

WYDEQ Storm water discharge

Construction related

WY Game and Fish Wildlife issues

WY State Engineer Temporary use of un-appropriated water

Hydro testing

Short list permits/consultations (p 7 of 8)

Who What Comments

WY State Lands & Investments

Temporary access and permit to construct

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Section 106 National Historic Preservation Act

NRCS Erosion control recommendations, re-vegetation specifications

Short list permits/consultations (p 8 of 8)

Who What Comments

Various Counties, Water Districts, Irrigation districts, railroads, existing pipelines

Temporary access, special use permits, crossing permits, coordination of construction

Recapping…

Fauna

Special Fauna

Soils and slopes

Back Country By-Ways

Paleontological Resources

Existing ROW Corridors

National Trails

Travel Management

Heritage Resources

Wilderness and Historic

Simplify please…

Animals

Special Animals

Dirt

Drives

Fossils

Pipes and wires

Trails

Travel

Views

Wilderness

Now you know what the pipeline engineers lay awake thinking about…

Take away points

• The many areas of concern can invite many interested parties to the process

• Meeting desired criteria can run into competing resolutions

• GIS is a critical tool in navigating the process

• The expense of planning a pipeline is usually unrecoverable if not built

Take away points

• Resource Management Plans have large impacts on development

• Issues covered in the RMP cannot be dismissed out of hand

• Substantial time and expense is required to prepare the application

So You Want to Build a Pipeline? (Who are you going to ask?)

Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute

5th Annual Conference Casper, WY Brian Jeffries

Executive Director www.wyopipeline.com

307.237.5009