Another oil pipeline is going to be built connecting to the Cushing Hub in northern Oklahoma.
Two firms, Bridger Pipeline based in Houston and South Bow, based in Canada, recently confirmed their intent to build the line which would be the third leg of a bigger project to move oil from Alberta to the Cushing hub. The line in question would actually transport oil from Guernsey, Wyoming to Cushing.
Reuters reported the two firms, in a joint venture, acquired the right-of-way of the Liberty pipeline from Tallgrass Energy, a pipeline company headquartered in Kansas City. The Liberty Pipeline was a cancelled project originally designed to move oil from the Rockies and North Dakota Bakken production areas to Cushing. The Liberty was a proposed 700-mile-long line aimed at moving light crude oil, but in 2020,
As the Pipeline Journal reported in 2021, the plug was pulled on the Liberty by a Houston based Phillips 66 consortium.
The most recent report by Reuters indicated that South Bow and Bridger have also proposed an Alberta-to-Guernsey, Wyoming, oil pipeline, called Prairie Connector, that could increase Canada’s crude exports to the U.S. by more than 12%, bringing much-needed export capacity to Canada.
A cross-border permit for the Prairie Connector was signed by President Trump in April as the proposed line is considered to be a partial revival of Keystone XL, the line killed by former President Joe Biden in 2021.
