Enterprise Products Partners LP is investigating a crude-oil pipeline prospect that would run from the Bakken Shale to the US Gulf Coast through pipeline-friendly states such as Colorado and Wyoming, as opposed to states where previous plans from other companies have failed.
Meanwhile, Energy Transfer Partners has emerged with a plan to build a more indirect route to the Gulf Coast. Based on similarly structured projects to Cushing, it may meet with more success.
An abundance of new (and growing) resources means Canada is on the threshold of becoming a world-class producer of energy. But, as Gordon Cope explains, it will need pipelines, and plenty of them, to get there.