Bakken pipeline

Dakota Access Pipeline
Dakota Access Pipeline route (Standing Rock Indian Reservation is shown in orange)
Location
Country	United States
General direction	Southeastward
From	Stanley, North Dakota
Passes through	States of North Dakota (Bismarck) South Dakota (Redfield, Sioux Falls) Iowa (Sioux Center, Storm Lake, Ames, Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, Fort Madison) Illinois (Jacksonville)
To	Patoka, Illinois (oil tank farm)
General information
Type	Crude oil
Partners	Energy Transfer Partners Sunoco Logistics Partners Phillips 66 Enbridge Marathon Petroleum
Operator	Dakota Access Pipeline, LLC (development phase) Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P. (operational phase)
Construction started	2016
Expected	2017
Technical information
Length	1,134 mi (1,825 km)
Maximum discharge	0.45 million barrels per day (~2.2×10^7 t/a)
Diameter	30 in (762 mm)
Website	www.daplpipelinefacts.com

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) or Bakken pipeline is a 1,172-mile-long (1,886 km) underground oil pipeline project in the United States. The route begins in the Bakken shale oil fields in northwest North Dakota and continues in a straight line south-east, through South Dakota and Iowa, terminating at the oil tank farm near Patoka, Illinois. Together with the Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline from Patoka to Nederland, Texas, it forms the Bakken system.

The $3.78 billion project was announced to the public in June 2014, and informational hearings for landowners took place between August 2014 and January 2015. Dakota Access, LLC, a Houston, Texas based company and subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.started constructing the pipeline in June 2016. Its minor partners are Phillips 66, Enbridge, and Marathon Petroleum. On November 26, 2016, the project was reported to be 87% completed. It was planned for completion by January 1, 2017. However, the project was delayed by the Army Corps of Engineers' December 2016 to deny an easement across Lake Oahe, part of the Missouri River.

The pipeline has been controversial regarding its necessity and impact on the environment. A number of Native Americans in Iowa and the Dakotas have opposed the pipeline, including the Meskwaki and several Sioux tribal nations, under the assertion that the pipeline would threaten sacred burial grounds as well as the quality of water in the area. In August 2016, ReZpect Our Water, a group organized on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, brought a petition to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in Washington, D.C., and the tribe sued for an injunction. A protest at the pipeline site in North Dakota, near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, has drawn international attention.