TC Energy Corp. is gauging customer interest in oil transportation services that would connect Oklahoma crude supply with downstream refining markets on the Texas coast.

The binding open season to solicit firm commitments for oil transportation service on the Marketlink Pipeline System was launched Friday. Marketlink has a capacity of 750,000 b/d and connects to TC’s Keystone oil pipeline system, which transports Canadian crude from northern Alberta to U.S. Midwest refineries.

The expansion would move oil supply from Cushing, OK, to destinations in Houston and nearby Port Arthur.

A TC spokesperson told NGI that the company has been working with prospective customers to develop the service and is offering the available system capacity “above our current...