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Liquids Pipelines
What we're doing today
Enbridge is Canada's largest transporter of crude oil.
We export 69% of Western Canadian oil, which represents 11% of the U.S.'s daily crude oil imports. On any single day, Enbridge is the largest single conduit of oil into the U.S.
The Company's mainline is the world's longest, most sophisticated crude oil pipeline system. With an export capacity of 2.1 million barrels per day, we move close to 100 separate commodities, including more than 20 types of refined products.
How we're building for tomorrow
Enbridge is the preeminent pipeline provider to Canada's oil sands—the largest resource play in the world. With an estimated 178 billion barrels of oil sands reserves, Canada ranks second only to Saudi Arabia in global oil reserves.
Commercially Secured Growth
We are currently engaged in the largest capital program in our 60-year history—investing $12 billion to expand our North American pipeline and terminal network primarily to support broadening access of oil sands production to U.S. refining markets.
By 2011, we will have almost doubled the size of our Liquids Pipelines business, further diversifying the markets we serve and playing an even more significant role in energy delivery in North America.
Shovels in the Ground
Alberta Clipper construction began in August 2008 and is scheduled to be in service by mid-2010. Construction of Southern Lights began in late summer 2008 and is scheduled to be in service by the end of 2010.
The Alberta Clipper Expansion and Southern Lights projects will be built to the highest standards of pipeline safety and integrity using the latest pipeline engineering and construction technologies and practices.
Commercially Secured Liquids Pipelines Projects
Alberta Clipper, which will provide Western Canadian producers additional transportation capacity to U.S. and Canadian markets, involves the construction of a new 914-millimetre (36-inch) diameter, 1,607-kilometre (1,000-mile) crude oil pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta, to Superior, Wisconsin.
Bakken in Play
Our two sponsored investments—Enbridge Income Fund and Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P.—are expanding their pipeline systems to address significant growth in oil production in the Bakken Formation, which spans parts of Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Montana. The Energy Information Administration in the United States estimates that the Bakken shale has up to 503 billion barrels of resources in place (proven, probable and possible).
In response to increasing Bakken production in Saskatchewan, Enbridge Income Fund completed an expansion of its Westspur System in 2008, increasing capacity by 34% to 255,000 barrels per day (bpd). It also announced plans for a $100-million, 129,000-bpd expansion of its Weyburn, Westspur and Saskatchewan pipeline systems to be completed by 2010.
To serve North Dakota and Montana, Enbridge Energy Partners added 30,000 bpd of crude oil delivery capacity to its North Dakota System in 2007, bringing total capacity to 110,000 bpd, and is now proceeding with a further $150-million, 51,000-bpd expansion to be in service by early 2010.
Enbridge has a 72.3% overall economic interest in Enbridge Income Fund and a 27% overall ownership in Enbridge Energy Partners.