{"id":10464,"date":"2012-10-09T09:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=10464"},"modified":"2012-10-09T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T15:18:51","slug":"oklahomas-cushing-oil-hub-illustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/10\/09\/oklahomas-cushing-oil-hub-illustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma&#8217;s Cushing Oil Hub Illustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10465\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-09-27\/in-the-pipeline\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10465\" title=\"Cushing Illustrated\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/10\/cushing-illustrated-620x398.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Source: Bloomberg Businessweek<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This illustration by Businessweek shows the pipeline pathways in and out of the crude oil storage hub at Cushing. Fields of tanks are fed by an 11-state pipeline network that stretches from North Dakota to the Gulf Coast of Texas.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>It&#8217;s hard to wrap your head around the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/topic\/cushing\/\">oil hub<\/a> in Cushing, Oklahoma.<\/p><p>Much of the pipeline infrastructure is underground, and what is visible is as expansive as it is unrevealing: Hulking, featureless cylinders in fenced-off fields. Thick steel obscures valuable oil storage and transport data, forcing traders to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/09\/28\/oil-espionage-traders-spy-on-oklahoma-hub-with-satellites-sensors-and-infrared-cameras\/\">spy on the vast tankscape with satellites, sensors and infrared cameras<\/a>.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>It might be impossible to know exactly how much crude is in those tanks at any given moment. Even a good estimate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-09-27\/the-oil-hub-where-traders-are-making-millions\">could be worth millions<\/a>.<\/p><p>But it&#8217;s a little easier to find out who can move the crude in and out of Cushing, and where it&#8217;s coming from. And the graphic gurus over at\u00a0<em>Businessesweek<\/em> have assembled an elegant schematic of the major pathways to and from Cushing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to wrap your head around the oil hub in Cushing, Oklahoma.Much of the pipeline infrastructure is underground, and what is visible is as expansive as it is unrevealing: Hulking, featureless cylinders in fenced-off fields. Thick steel obscures valuable oil storage and transport data, forcing traders to spy on the vast tankscape with satellites, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":10465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,14],"tags":[339,238],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10472,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions\/10472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}