The Wall Street Journal reports this project will be moving forward

Report Volume XXIV, Number 16 April 15, 2013

INDUSTRY NEWS (Enid, OK) – Hiland Crude, a subsidiary of Hiland Partners, is proposing a new pipeline that would cost $300 million – transporting crude from North Dakota’s Bakken field to eastern Wyoming.

The pipeline is expected to have a starting capacity of 50,000 bpd, but it could hold twice that amount. The 12-inch pipeline will stretch 500 miles, and the company is in talks with various landowners and Converse County officials in Wyoming to get the project underway.

Hiland already signed deals with some landowners along the Converse County line, and the company is hopeful for more cooperation.

If all goes well with negotiations, construction will begin this summer. The pipeline is expected to foster 180 jobs throughout its construction and three to five permanent positions.

The pipeline, known as Double H, will be fully operational by August of 2014. Most of the sections will only take three to four months to construct.

Double H will begin in Dore, North Dakota, stretching to Guernsey, Wyoming. From there, the pipeline will connect to the Pony Express pipeline—formerly a natural gas line that is being transformed into a passage for crude by Tallgrass Energy Partners, Oklahoma’s Enid News reports

Pony Express is being revamped to reach Cushing, Oklahoma—a city well known for its extensive oil trading and as the center for the settlement price for West Texas Intermediate on the New York Mercantile Exchange.