Costs for Kinder Morgan Inc.’s 715-mile-long Trans Mountain oil-pipeline expansion in Alberta and British Columbia have risen to $5.48 billion from $5 billion since 2014, when the project was announced, company officials said on March 9.
Oil pipelines dominated the energy news on Nov. 29, when Canada’s government approved one of two controversial pipelines from Alberta’s oil sands to the west coast, rejected a second and gave a pass to a third, running south to the U.S.
Energy Transfer Partners says it hopes to resume construction soon on a portion of the Dakota
Access crude-oil pipeline, located on private lands east and west of Lake Oahe in North Dakota.
Two energy-industry heavyweights are teaming to expand the Seaway Pipeline to more than double its capacity to transmit crude oil from Canada and the northern U.S. to the Gulf Coast.
