Overview
- Oil companies have committed at least 400,000 barrels per day, about 72% of the planned 550,000 bpd capacity, according to reports published Tuesday.
- South Bow and Bridger are pursuing long-term deals totaling roughly 450,000 bpd, the level pipeline operators typically require before breaking ground.
- The design would revive about 150 kilometers of idle pipe in Canada and add a 645-mile line through Montana to Guernsey, a junction that will still need links to hubs like Cushing or the Gulf Coast.
- The project holds a U.S. cross-border permit signed Thursday by President Trump, and a filing says the system could later scale to about 1.13 million bpd.
- Companies named by sources as committing include Cenovus, Canadian Natural Resources, Tamarack Valley, Whitecap, and Strathcona, underscoring producers’ drive to ease Canada’s long pipeline constraints.