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However, by installing additional pumping stations capacity can be increased to a total intake at Edmonton of about 150,000 barrels a day and to an output of some 103,000 barrels at the lakehead.

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Alberta oil, on the other hand, lies in an area bounded by the broad stretches of the Rocky Mountains on one side and by more than a thousand miles of land to the lakehead on the other.

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When definite plans for the line to the lakehead were formulated last spring, Alberta reserves were estimated at one billion barrels -- an amount sufficient to supply the line at its initial rate for about 25 years.

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It is expected that the pipe line will be completed next year and that oil will be flowing through it as far as Regina in the fall and to the lakehead by the opening of navigation in 1951.

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Initial capacity of the pipe line will be 95,000 barrels a day to Regina and 70,000 barrels a day to the lakehead, with the delivery at Superior in the summer of 1951 expected to be between 50,000 and 60,000 barrels a day.

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Engineering studies indicated that an all-Canadian route would be 121 miles longer to lakehead; it would require at least an additional $10 million to build; the increased operating cost would be about one million dollars annually; and it would delay the completion of the line by one year.

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