The "silos" are actually smokestacks for the two 6, 130-horsepower natural gas-powered compressors that will take gas from a 30-inch pipeline and send it at a higher velocity into a 24-inch one.

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Without sufficient pipeline capacity to send it down to the megarefineries on the Gulf Coast, producers are beholden to a handful of regional buyers.

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South Sudan, for years the largest oil producer in the region and locked in an oil dispute with Sudan, now wants to send crude out through Kenya on a pipeline to a proposed new port in Lamu (see map).

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Rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline, thereby pushing Canada to send oil to China instead.

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