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Pipeline Capacity Revisited: Timing the next export bottleneck

Published by

Oil Sands Magazine

Date

22 September 2026

Access

Free to read

Link

www.oilsandsmagazine.com/market-insights/2026/9/22/pipeline-capacity-r…

Checked

29 September 2026

Events it documents

• 22 September 2026Oil Sands Magazine: record 4.8 mb/d western crude output in Q4 2026; egress tight again by end-2028DocumentOtherAlberta1 source
• 30 April 2026Trump signs a presidential permit for the Bridger Pipeline expansion, which re-uses Keystone XL assets (about 550,000 barrels a day of Canadian crude initially)ActionPermitUnited States5 sources
• 7 April 2026Trans Mountain holds a binding open season (7 April to 2 June 2026) to sign more long-term firm shipping contracts on its pipelineActionContractCanada4 sources