Keystone disruption comes at a key time for Western Canadian crude markets

On December 7, 2022, Wood Mackenzie’s real-time pipeline monitoring picked up a complete outage on the Keystone pipeline system, which resulted from a rupture in a segment of the line in northern Kansas.

This report was released the following day to subscribers of Wood Mackenzie’s Canadian and Mid-Continent Pipeline services. While the duration of the outage on the Cushing segment of the pipeline is unknown, this report details intelligence and analysis compiled by Wood Mackenzie’s research team immediately following the spill, and evaluates scenarios based on previous incidents.

Learn more about how this data was collected by reviewing the product features and capabilites of our North America Crude Markets Service solution.