Southern Lights Pipeline
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Southern Lights Oil Diluent Pipeline, also called the Enbridge Line 13 Oil Pipeline, is a diluent oil pipeline in Canada and the United States.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from Manhattan, Illinois, United States to Enbridge's Edmonton Terminal, Alberta, Canada.
Project details
- Operator:
- Owner: Enbridge[1]
- Parent company: Enbridge
- Capacity: 180,000 barrels per day[1]
- Length: 1,588 miles[2]
- Diameter: 20 inches[2]
- Status: Operating[1]
- Start year: 2010[1]
- Cost:
- Financing:
- Associated infrastructure:
Background
The Southern Lights light hydrocarbon pipeline consists of 474 miles of 16-inch to 20-inch pipelines for transporting diluents to Alberta, which is blended with oil sands prior to export to the US. It is twinned with the Southern Access Crude Oil Pipeline, which runs in the reverse direction, from Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada to Manhattan, Illinois. It began operating in 2010.[1]
Expansion Projects
Reversal and Conversion Expansion Project
According to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Enbridge had announced that the pipeline would be reversed and converted. The pipeline would be reversed to flow southeast from Alberta, Canada, to Illinois. The pipeline would have also been converted to carry crude instead of diluent. The project was expected to be complete in 2023 and would have resulted in an additional 150,000 barrel per day (bpd) of transport capacity. The project didn't involve adding any new miles of pipeline.[3]
The June 9, 2022 update of US EIA database said there had been no new developments on the project. As of February 2023, the project was considered to be shelved. [3]
As of 2024, the project is listed as canceled in the EIA database.[4]
Reversal and Conversion ExpansionProject Details
- Operator:
- Owner: Enbridge[1]
- Parent company: Enbridge
- Capacity: 150,000 barrels per day[3]
- Length: 0.0 new miles of pipeline[3]
- Status: Cancelled[4]
- Start year: 2023[3]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Southern Lights Oil Diluent Pipeline, A Barrel Full, accessed September 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Enbridge’s Energy Infrastructure Assets Enbrdige, July 22, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Petroleum & Other Liquids, Movements, Energy Information Administration, June 4, 2020
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Petroleum & Other Liquids Data - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)". www.eia.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
