Canadian pipeline proposals spent an average of 681 days in regulatory reviews before being approved in 2016, which is 91 per cent longer than the 357 days of regulatory reviews they endured in 2009.
By contrast, U.S. pipeline proposals took an average of 336 days to approve in 2017, a 15 per cent increase on the average of 292 days those pipelines spent in the regulatory process in 2009.
While all three active oil export pipeline proposals in Canada have faced multi-year delays, RS Energy Group analysis shows that in just three years, three new oil pipelines from the Permian Basin in Texas have been approved and are under construction. Those pipelines — the Epic Crude Oil Pipeline, the PSX Gray Oak pipeline and PAA Cactus 2 pipeline — will be online in 2020 and carry an additional 2.4 million bpd to the Gulf Coast.
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