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 has announced that the pipeline will be reversed and converted. The pipeline will be reversed to flow southeast from Alberta, Canada, to Illinois. Pipeline will also be converted to carry crude instead of diluent. The project is expected to be complete in 2023 and will result in an additional 150,000 barrel per day (bpd) of transport capacity. The project does not involve adding any new miles of pipeline.[3]
The June 9, 2022 update of US EIA database says there has been no new developments on the project. As of February 2023, the project is considered as shelved. [3]
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: Shelved[3]
- Start year: 2023[3]
