Large-scale development in Alberta’s oil sands is propelling significant growth in Western Canadian crude oil production. Oil sands producers need expanded access to new and existing markets for these increased supplies of Canadian crude. The Waupisoo Pipeline Project is one of the ways Enbridge Pipelines (Athabasca) is working with the producers to help realize the promise of the oil sands as a pillar of sustained North American energy reliability and security – and as a key engine of economic growth in Canada.

The proposed Waupisoo Pipeline would link producers to their upgraders and refineries in the Edmonton area as well as to connections with Canada's interprovincial oil pipeline systems. From Edmonton, the new supplies of crude oil and refined products could be shipped to markets in British Columbia, Ontario and the U.S. Midwest. Waupisoo is currently slated to be put into service mid-2008.