Enbridge sanctions new offshore pipelines to support bp's Kaskida development

Oct. 4, 2024

The $700-million project calls for new oil export and gas gathering lines in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

The Canyon oil export pipeline system and the Canyon gas gathering system will provide transportation service for bp’s Kaskida field development project, and possibly future Paleogene production.

By Bruce Beaubouef, Managing Editor

Enbridge Inc. has announced that it will build, own, and operate crude oil and natural gas pipelines in the US Gulf of Mexico for the recently sanctioned Kaskida development, operated by BP Exploration & Production Company.

The crude oil pipeline, named the Canyon oil pipeline system, will have a capacity of 200,000 barrels per day. It will originate in the Keathley Canyon area and deliver crude to the existing Green Canyon 19 platform, operated by Shell Pipeline Company LP for ultimate delivery to the Louisiana market.

The natural gas pipeline, named the Canyon gathering system, will have a capacity of 125 million cubic feet per day and will connect subsea to Enbridge’s existing Magnolia gas gathering pipeline, which then delivers to Enbridge’s Garden Banks gas pipeline.

Enbridge says that the agreements contain options which bp may elect to exercise in order to connect potential future production from its emerging Paleogene portfolio into the newly developed pipelines. Both the Canyon oil and the Canyon gas pipelines are being designed to accommodate connections from nearby discoveries.

Enbridge says that the Canyon oil pipeline system will be approximately 140 miles in length and 24/26 inches in diameter. The Canyon gas gathering system will be approximately 60 miles in length and 12 inches in diameter. Both pipelines will originate in Keathley Canyon block 293 in approximately 5,900 feet of water. If options are exercised by bp, the Canyon oil pipeline would increase its length to approximately 200 miles and the Canyon gas gathering system would increase its length to approximately 115 miles.

Detailed design and procurement activities will commence in early 2025 with the pipelines expected to be operational by 2029. The cost of the pipelines will be approximately $700 million.

About the Author

Bruce Beaubouef | Managing Editor

Bruce Beaubouef is Managing Editor for Offshore magazine. In that capacity, he plans and oversees content for the magazine; writes features on technologies and trends for the magazine; writes news updates for the website; creates and moderates topical webinars; and creates videos that focus on offshore oil and gas and renewable energies. Beaubouef has been in the oil and gas trade media for 25 years, starting out as Editor of Hart’s Pipeline Digest in 1998. From there, he went on to serve as Associate Editor for Pipe Line and Gas Industry for Gulf Publishing for four years before rejoining Hart Publications as Editor of PipeLine and Gas Technology in 2003. He joined Offshore magazine as Managing Editor in 2010, at that time owned by PennWell Corp. Beaubouef earned his Ph.D. at the University of Houston in 1997, and his dissertation was published in book form by Texas A&M University Press in September 2007 as The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975-2005.