Pipeline Services
Get an unparalleled view of critical oil pipeline flows serving production, storage and refining areas in North America and Western Europe
Access critical intelligence on crude oil pipeline flows and crossroads of the world
Time is of the essence in a fast-moving, sensitive market. Be the first to know about major pipeline shutdowns, start-ups, and flow changes. Our services monitor real-time flows on critical crude oil pipelines supplying and servicing key refineries. Use our comprehensive coverage to create granular supply and demand models, with added insight into refinery operations via specific pipeline feedstock data.
Features and workflows
Unparalleled view of critical oil pipeline flows serving production, storage and refining areas across the world.
Key features of Wood Mackenzie's Pipeline Services:
- Beat the market and the competition with real-time alerts.
- Evaluate potential impacts on crude oil storage inventories with real-time flow data.
- Embed our pipeline data into your own pricing or supply and demand models with API access.
- Analyse pipeline flow data connected to key storage hubs and refineries.
- Receive immediate alerts on operational changes along crude and diluent pipeline networks (shutdowns, flow reductions, restarts...)
Wood Mackenzie's Pipeline Services provides data including:
- Real-time alerts and half-hourly flow updates by pipeline for quick assessment of market moving events.
- Ad hoc intelligence reporting on critical pipeline infrastructure progress, and potential delays.
- Data collected from various state and federal regulatory bodies for monitored and unmonitored pipelines.
- 90% of crude pipeline capacity into the US and 91% of crude pipeline capacity from the US into Canada.
- 91% of the pipeline network connected to Cushing, Oklahoma.
- More than 80% of long-haul pipeline capacity in Western Europe, including the Druzhba system.
- 100% of coverage of long-haul pipeline capacity crossing PADDs 2 & 3.
Wood Mackenzie's Pipeline Services enables a number of key workflows including:
Supply and demand modelling
Create granular supply and demand models, with pipeline flow data and insight into refinery operations via specific pipeline feedstock data.
Trading strategy
Optimise your trading strategies with access to our real-time information on crude oil trade routes.
Strategic planning
Assess the potential for regional bottlenecking or overbuilding as production and takeaway capacity dynamics evolve.
Why choose WoodMac’s Pipeline Services?
Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary electromagnetic field (EMF) technology used to monitor pipeline flows provides a unique view of critical oil pipeline flows serving production, storage and refining areas across major regions.
Our pipeline services suite
Mid-Continent Pipeline Service
Pipeline flow data connected to key storage hubs and refineries in the mid-continent, including Western Canada, Bakken, Permian Niobrara, SCOOP and STACK. Use our real-time flow data to front run Cushing crude inventory data from the EIA.
Canadian Pipeline Service
Get an unprecedented view of US crude imports from and exports to Canada by pipeline. We directly monitor Enbridge's Mainline, the key artery of Canadian crude oil into the US, as well as TransCanada's Keystone pipeline.
Frequently asked questions
Here you’ll find answers to the most common questions you may have on Wood Mackenzie's Pipeline Services Suite. If you have any other questions, get in touch.
Our Pipeline Services data includes real-time alerts, half-hourly flow updates by pipeline, as well as real-time flow data.
Traders
Use real-time pipeline data to stay current on storage inventories or other market moving data releases. Trade grade differentials by assessing real-time utilisation rates on long haul pipelines from one region to another. Be the first to know about unplanned outages and the duration of planned outages.
Analysts
Generate and maintain supply and demand balances by using pipeline flow data to track import-export movements or use it as a real-time proxy for regional production dynamics.
Finance Officers and Risk Managers
Assess financial positions with exposure to crude oil prices in real-time.
Mitigate risk by understanding potential supply and demand imbalances via pipeline flow data. Real-time pipeline flow data can provide insights and guidance for crude oil price hedging, crack spread hedging, and spot market activity and price hedging.
Contact an expert
Access an unrivalled view of the crude oil pipelines flow across North America and Europe. Get in touch with one of experts today to learn how you can leverage our data to gain a full picture of the market.
