Take the Long Way Home - Enbridge's Oil Pipeline Expansions Likely to Spur More Projects Downstream

04/08/2025 12 min
Take the Long Way Home - Enbridge's Oil Pipeline Expansions Likely to Spur More Projects Downstream

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Western Canadian crude oil production is rising fast. To keep pace, Enbridge is planning expansions to its pipelines into the Midwest and Great Plains. But PADD 2 refineries are maxed out on heavy crude, so virtually all those incremental barrels will need to keep flowing south to refineries and export terminals along the Gulf Coast. Can the pipelines from PADD 2 to PADD 3 handle the higher volumes? In today’s RBN blog, we discuss the knock-on effects of rising Western Canadian production and Enbridge’s pipeline expansions. 

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