Athabasca Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline

Summary Information

• Source: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
• Destination: Hardisty, Alberta, Canada
• Ownership: Enbridge
• Website: http://www.enbridge.com/
• Length: 540 kilometres (335 miles)
• Capacity: 345,000 barrels of oil per day
• Crude Type: Heavy Canadian Crude

+++ Brief Description

• A 762 mm (30 inch) diameter pipeline totaling 540 km in length from Suncor's Oil Sands Plant near Fort McMurray, Alberta to Enbridge's Terminal at Hardisty, Alberta
• The Athabasca Heavy Crude Oil Pipeline operates at 65^^o^^C

+++ Pipeline Status

• In operation
• Enbridge plans to increase the capacity to 570,000 barrels per day with the addition of new pumping stations

+++ History

• 1998 - Pipeline project approved by regulators
• 1999 - Pipeline commissioned
• 2011 - Enbridge Announces $1.2 Billion Twinning of Southern Section of Athabasca Pipeline
• 2012 - 230 m3 of heavy crude oil leaked from a pumping station

+++ Other Information

• The pipeline's first committed customer was Suncor for its MacKay River Oil Sands Project

+++ Links

• APPLICATION TO CONSTRUCT AND OPERATE THE ATHABASCA PIPELINE PROJECT
• Enbridge Liquid Pipelines
• ERCB Responding To Enbridge Pipeline Pumping Station Release
• Athabasca Pipeline Twinning Project
• Pipeline External Corrosion Management And Construction Methodology For Athabasca Pipeline
• Enbridge Announces $1.2 Billion Twinning of Southern Section of Athabasca Pipeline