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Enbridge and associated
companies
Kinder Morgan
Sunoco
ExxonMobil
TransCanada
Marathon Petroleum
Portland Pipe Line
Corporation and Montreal
Pipe Line Limited
Koch Pipeline Company
Energy Companies
MAJOR US AND
CANADIAN PIPELINES
Port
Arthur
Cushing
Guernsey
Superior
Flanagan
Chicago
Wood
River
Patoka
St.
Paul
Hardisty
Edmonton
Anacortes
Burnaby
Portland
Montréal
Sarnia
C A N A D A
U N I T E D
S T A T E S
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
PACIFIC
OCEAN
Clearbrook
Freeport
New
Orleans
Longview
El Paso
Slaughter
Houston
Gulf of
Mexico
occur. Former Chevron executive Don Paul sums up the reality
of living in a petroleum-dependent world: “In the future, you
are going to need every molecule of oil that you can get from
every source.”
According to the American Petroleum Institute, the United States contains more than
190,000 miles (300,775 km) of liquid petroleum pipelines. The map below shows major
crude oil pipelines in the United States and Canada as of 2014. Most of these pipelines
run underground, carrying crude oil from onshore and offshore oil fields to refineries.
Other pipelines
(not shown here)
then carry refined petroleum from refineries to
storage depots (where the refined petroleum is loaded onto trucks for delivery to retail
outlets). In addition, an extensive network of pipelines is dedicated to carrying non-
liquid natural gas throughout the country. Canada is the United States’ largest supplier
of oil, with Canadian companies such as Enbridge, Kinder Morgan, and TransCanada
transporting around 3 million barrels into the United States per day.
