Buoyed by record crude oil flows through its Mainline system and the expectation of further growth in Western Canadian production, Enbridge has been sanctioning more pipeline expansion projects and discussing plans for adding still more capacity later this decade. The magnitude of the broader effort is significant, adding up to 500 Mb/d of incremental capacity on key parts of its far-flung crude oil pipeline network by 2028, including a project with Energy Transfer involving their Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). In today’s RBN blog, we’ll discuss Enbridge’s newly ramped-up plans.
As we said in The Race Is On this past summer, two of the surest bets in the North American energy space these days are that (1) Western Canadian production of heavy crude oil will continue rising and (2) new pipeline takeaway capacity will be needed to handle those increasing volumes. No one is a bigger player in the region’s crude oil pipeline business than Enbridge, whose Mainline system (dark-blue line in Figure 1 below) delivered an average of 3.1 MMb/d to the U.S. Midwest in Q3 2025 — an all-time high. Enbridge also owns all or part of several pipelines that either transport crude to the U.S. via a more westerly route (the company’s Express-Platte system; light-purple line) or take crude from the Mainline system to the Cushing (OK) and Patoka (IL) hubs — and from there to the Gulf Coast. (More on those in a moment.)
Figure 1. Enbridge Mainline and Other Selected Pipelines. Source: RBN
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About the song
“Let’s Get It Started” was written by William Adams, Allen Pineda, Jamie Gomez, Michael Fratantuno and George Pajon Jr. It appears as the fifth song on The Black Eyed Peas’ third studio album, Elephunk. Released as a single in June 2004, it went to #4 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart and #21 on the Hot 100 Singles chart. The song won “Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group” at the 2005 Grammy Awards. Personnel on the record were: will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo, and Fergie (vocals), George Pajon Jr. (guitar), Mike Fratantuno (bass), Terence Yoshiaki (drums) and Dante Santiago (backing vocals).
Elephunk was produced by apl.de.ap., Ron Fair, Poet Named Life, and will.i.am and released in June 2003. It went to #14 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, and has been certified 2X Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The LP was the group's first album with Fergie, and the first record to add “The” to Black Eyed Peas. Four singles were released from the album.
The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop-rap act that started out as an alternative hip hop group formed in Los Angeles in 1995. Six members have passed through the group since its inception. Fergie (Stacy Ann Ferguson) left the band in 2018 to pursue solo ventures, including a line of cosmetics, footwear and wine. They have released nine studio albums, two compilation albums, an EP and 38 singles. The Black Eyed Peas have won eight American Music Awards, two ASCAP Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, one BMI Award, six Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and three World Music Awards. Their last studio album, Elevation, was released in November 2022 and went to #13 on the Billboard Top Dance Albums chart. The group, with original members, will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo, still perform live and are currently on tour in Asia.
"About the Song" -- written by Mickey McMahan , RBN Director of Musicology
