Company: ENBSF
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000895728-25-000006
Chunk: 181

Company: ENBRIDGE INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 181
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 Crude Oil Marketing business are primarily generated from arbitrage opportunities which, by their nature, can be replicated by competitors. An increase in market participants entering into similar arbitrage strategies could have an impact on our earnings. Efforts to mitigate competition risk include diversification of the marketing business by transacting at the majority of major hubs in North America and establishing long-term relationships with clients and pipelines.

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

We have an established and successful history of being the largest transporter of crude oil to the US, the world’s largest market for crude oil. We expect US demand for Canadian crude oil production will support the use of our infrastructure for the foreseeable future.

Under most base case forecasts, demand is expected to grow into the next decade, primarily driven by emerging economies in regions outside the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), such as India and broader Southeast Asia. In North America, demand growth for transportation fuels is expected to slow down over time due to vehicle fuel efficiency improvement and rising adoption of electric vehicles. 

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is expected to continue to balance markets and manage prices with production quotas despite accelerated developments of offshore production in both Brazil and Guyana and continued growth from Canada and the US. In the US, growth will likely be driven by the Permian Basin, a large and cost competitive light crude oil resource base. In addition, heavy crude oil growth is expected from the WCSB as additional egress availability will likely support expansion of existing projects and some potential new greenfield facilities.

Our Mainline System was effectively fully utilized in 2024 delivering 3.1 mmbpd. Refinery demand in the upper Midwest PADD II market has been strong. On the US Gulf Coast, lower supply of heavy crude from Latin America and the Middle East continues to drive increased demand for Canadian heavy crude. Many of the refineries connected to the Mainline System are complex and competitive in the global context.  

The anticipated combination of long-term demand growth in non-OECD nations, domestic demand contraction over time, and continued production growth in the Permian Basin and WCSB, highlights the importance of our strategic asset footprint and reinforces the need for additional export-oriented infrastructure. We believe that we are well positioned to meet these evolving supply and demand fundamentals through expansion of system capacity for incremental access to the US Gulf Coast, and through further development of our EIEC in Corpus Christi, including the full integration and optimization of the Flint Hills marine docks and land acquired in October 2024.

Opposition to fossil fuel