Independent Study Finds Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion to
Stimulate More Than $20 Billion in New Spending For U.S. Economy
Calgary, Alberta – June 17, 2010 – An independent economic study finds that construction of
the Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion Pipeline project should provide significant, positive
contributions to the U.S. economy valued at over $20 billion.
The Perryman Group study also states that the proposed pipeline project should improve U.S.
energy security with the ongoing benefit to the U.S. economy of a more stable source of
consistent energy supply over an extended period of time.
The study estimates that during construction, the $7 billion pipeline project is expected to
stimulate:
• More than $20 billion in new spending for the U.S. economy
• More than 118,000 person-years of employment
• An increase of $6.5 billion in the personal income of Americans
• Increased gross output (product) of $9.6 billion
• More than $585 million in state and local taxes in the states along the pipeline route
The study further concluded that once the pipeline is operational, the states along the pipeline
route are expected to receive an additional $5.2 billion in property taxes during the operating life
of the pipeline.
The study also highlights the significant ongoing benefit to the U.S. economy of a more stable,
consistent and reliable supply of oil. When completed, the Keystone Pipeline System is
expected to provide five per cent of current U.S. petroleum-consumption needs and represent
nine per cent of U.S. petroleum imports. Once permitted and completed, the Keystone Gulf
Coast Expansion project will supply roughly half the amount of oil that the U.S. currently imports
from the Middle East or Venezuela.
The Perryman study conservatively estimated the permanent increase in stable oil supplies the
Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion pipeline creates will add more than 250,000 permanent jobs for
U.S. workers and add more than $100 billion in annual total expenditures to the U.S. economy.
These figures assume that oil prices remain stable at the “2007 average price per barrel of
$66.52.” On the other hand, “If high oil prices prevail, the effect of the increase in stable oil
supplies” is even more pronounced, adding as many as 553,000 permanent jobs and an annual
increase in total expenditures of $221 billion to the U.S. economy. (Note: for the high oil price
scenario, The Perryman Group “used prices equal to the peak cost per barrel reached during
the summer of 2008 of approximately $147.)
The project received approval in March 2010 from both the South Dakota Public Utility
Commission and the National Energy Board in Canada for the proposed Keystone expansion.
Construction is planned to begin in the first quarter of 2011 with deliveries of crude oil to the
U.S. Gulf Coast expected to start in the first quarter of 2013.
When completed, the expansion project will increase the commercial capacity of the Keystone
Pipeline System from 590,000 barrels per day to approximately 1.1 million barrels per day. The
$12 billion system is 83 percent subscribed with long-term, binding contracts that include
commitments of 910,000 barrels per day for an average term of approximately 18 years.
Commercial operation of the first phase of the Keystone system is expected to commence in the
summer of 2010.
The Keystone expansion project is a planned 1,959-mile (3,134-kilometre), 36-inch crude oil
pipeline stretching from Hardisty, Alberta and moving southeast through Saskatchewan,
Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. It will link up with a portion of the Keystone Pipeline that
will be built through Kansas to Cushing, Oklahoma and facilitate take away capacity from US
hubs located on the pipeline. The pipeline will then continue on through Oklahoma to a delivery
point near existing terminals in Nederland, Texas to serve the Port Arthur, Texas marketplace.
To view a map of the proposed pipeline route and obtain a copy of the study, please visit the
project web page at www.transcanada.com/keystone
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