Trudeau’s Mega Pipeline Promises to Redraw Global Oil Flows

Trans Mountain project to bring 600,000 barrels to new markets
China, India among possible top destinations for crude

Pieces of the Trans Mountain Pipeline near Hope, British Columbia, Canada.
Photographer: Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images

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By Lucia Kassai and Robert Tuttle

September 21, 2023 at 9:30 AM UTC

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Canada, home to the world’s third-largest crude deposits, is poised to reshuffle global oil flows next year.

The nearly completed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline promises to vault Canada into a new role in global markets by transporting an additional 600,000 barrels a day — on par with the daily output of Azerbaijan — from the country’s vast oil sands to a port on the Pacific Coast.