Overview
- Developers have secured at least 400,000 barrels per day in shipper commitments, Reuters reported Tuesday, with a target of about 450,000 bpd that pipeline operators typically seek before starting work.
- President Donald Trump granted the cross‑border permit last Thursday, reopening a Canada‑to‑U.S. route after the Keystone XL permit was revoked in 2021.
- The plan would reuse roughly 150 km of idle pipe in Canada and add a new Bridger line of about 645 miles through Montana to Guernsey, Wyoming, with an eventual capacity cited at up to 1.13 million bpd in a regulatory filing.
- Guernsey is a staging hub rather than an end market, so the project still needs connections to major refining centers such as Cushing, Patoka and the U.S. Gulf Coast.
- Reported shippers include Cenovus and Canadian Natural Resources, plus Tamarack Valley, Whitecap Resources and Strathcona Resources, signaling producers’ drive to ease long‑running takeaway bottlenecks that could lift exports by more than 12% if the line gets built.