Trailbreaker

Enbridge's Trailbreaker Program offers shippers "right-sized" and "right-timed" access to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The key components of the proposed program are:

• the reversal of Enbridge's Line 9 from Sarnia to Montreal;
• expansions to Line 6B from the Griffith Terminal near Chicago to Sarnia;
• increasing the capacity on line 7 from Sarnia to Westover, Ontario;
• reversal of the Portland Pipeline from Montreal to Portland Maine.

The Trailbreaker Program will deliver significant benefits for eastern Great Lakes refineries in the U.S. and Canada as increased Canadian supply will offset declining production from the U.S. midcontinent or the need for supplies from outside of North America.

In addition, the Trailbreaker Program is expected to provide the industry with the earliest access to incremental volume potential of up to 200,000 bpd of heavy crude into the U.S. Gulf Coast by 2010.

As sufficient volumes to support the need for a pipeline directly to the Gulf Coast are developed, Trailbreaker can be shifted to provide light crude to the PADD I U.S. East Coast market for mainly growing synthetic volumes from Alberta's oil sands.

Enbridge's Trailbreaker project complements the Marathon refinery upgrade in Detroit and the Portland Montreal Pipeline reversal and conversion project by providing 200,000 barrels per day of incremental capacity into Montreal. Trailbreaker will be in service concurrently with Portland Montreal's project. For more information on Portland Montreal Pipeline please click here.

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