Dakota Access Pipeline - 1,172 mile underground oil pipeline that begins in the Bakken shale oil fields of North Dakota and ends at an oil tank farm in Patoka, Illinois. Keystone Pipeline – Partially constructed oil pipeline system that begins in Harbisty, Alberta and ends in Illinois and Texas. Kern River Pipeline – 1,679-mile pipeline that travels from southwestern Wyoming to Bakersfield, California, where it supplies distribution centers in Utah, Nevada and CaliforniaHow the mode worked