Enbridge

A court case has erupted over the future of Enbridge Inc.’s 540,000 b/d oil export Line 5 after negotiations failed to settle a Michigan dispute about its four-mile underwater leg across the Straits of Mackinac.

A Minnesota legal verdict Monday ordered additional environmental review for Enbridge Inc.’s oil export Line 3 pipeline replacement, raising fears that the one-year delay already holding back the $9-billion project will grow longer.

Enbridge Inc. is offering to speed up work on a planned tunnel for the four-mile underwater leg of its Line 5 oil pipeline across the Straits of Mackinac in response to Michigan state demands for swift action.

Portland General Electric Co. (PGE) is still reeling from last year’s explosion of an Enbridge Inc. natural gas pipeline serving the U.S. Pacific Northwest, according to the utility’s CEO, Maria Pope.

Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5, a 540,000 b/d oil pipeline, Thursday has temporarily survived the opening legal shots in a revived Michigan campaign to shut it down by demolishing its four-mile underwater leg across the Straits of Mackinac.

Just as midstream companies are leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to alleviate oil and natural gas pipeline bottlenecks in the Permian Basin, Enbridge Inc. is looking to repurpose one of its diluent pipelines to offer relief to the oil takeaway problem in Western Canada.

Enbridge Inc. said the opening of a replacement crude oil pipeline across the northern tier of Minnesota will be delayed until next year, after state regulators provided an updated timeline for when the company will receive the remaining environmental permits for the project.

Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz said he plans to continue an appeal filed during the final days of the former administration over Enbridge Inc.’s plans to replace an oil pipeline across the state’s northern tier.

Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. said it is “actively working with the new administration” of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on plans to replace a crude oil pipeline across the state’s northern tier, although it is still awaiting state and federal permits for the project.