The 300,000 b/d Trans Mountain pipeline connecting Canada’s crude hub to refineries and export hubs at the west coast was closed for three weeks starting in November as a precaution to extreme weather conditions. As a result, ANS crude demand and, therefore, prices surged. 

In this episode of The Crude Report, market reporters Brett Holmes and Benjamin Peyton explain how the Trans Mountain closure has affected both the Canadian supply and the North American west coast demand pictures.