Enbridge aims to help North America win from the AI boom and the Iran war as the FedEx of energy delivery

Call it the FedEx of energy. Calgary-based Enbridge has grown into the largest oil and gas pipeline company in the world by market cap—$120 billion—delivering vital energy supplies across the globe. Just don’t simplify Enbridge to only putting pipe in the ground.

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With assets that span renewables to utilities, Enbridge boasts a broad array of businesses that’s matched by the lofty role it sees itself playing on the world stage. Enbridge—whose name is a contraction of energy bridge—is committed to keeping the economic and cultural bonds between North America’s neighbors strong and healthy; it doesn’t hurt that CEO Greg Ebel, a dual citizen, is an unofficial diplomatic whisperer to the White House and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney helping to ease tensions between the two.

Enbridge is positioning itself to help power the AI data center boom and to lead oil and gas exports for the world as the war in the Middle East places more emphasis on secure American supplies—capturing all the key facets of the industry’s growth. For good measure, Enbridge even develops offshore wind farms in Europe.

“We want to be the first choice for energy delivery in North America and beyond,” Ebel said, sitting down with Fortune.

“One of the unfortunate—but positive for North America—outcomes of this Middle East situation will be a greater recognition that there’s less of a risk premium needed in North America,” Ebel said. “I think that’s an upside for Canada and the United States and for infrastructure players like us.”

Scaling up for ‘energy dominance’

Apart from becoming the preeminent pipeline player, Enbridge is the fourth-largest Canadian company by market cap, trailing Shopify. Enbridge ranks one spot above Netflix in the Fortune Global 500. And, to complete the delivery circle, Enbridge exceeds both FedEx and UPS in market cap. In fact, its market value is on par with Big Oil giant BP.

Splitting his time between Calgary and Houston, Ebel has helped Enbridge expand to 43 U.S. states and eight of the 10 Canadian provinces. Enbridge also pipes U.S. natural gas directly to Mexico. Enbridge moves nearly one-third of North American oil and 20% of U.S. natural gas.

“We like being part of that North American energy dominance play,” he said. “The company, by design, is bi-cultural.”

Ebel even alternates between hockey and baseball metaphors. Looking at projected growth for renewables, natural gas, and oil exports, he said Enbridge “skated to the puck in multiple areas.”

And, focusing on infrastructure expansions and modest acquisitions, he added, “You’re not going for home runs; you’re going for singles and doubles.”

Through its expanding Mainline pipeline network, Enbridge is the top exporter of Canadian oil into the U.S., and—out of its Texas Ingleside hub—it’s the top exporter of U.S. oil to the rest of the world. Enbridge is building more pipelines to service the construction boom of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals along the U.S. Gulf Coast, and Enbridge’s Woodfibre LNG terminal is slated to come online in 2027 in British Columbia as Canada’s West Coast becomes a growing LNG exporter to Asia.

The pipeliner is even top gas utility player in the U.S. and Canada, and it’s now building gas pipelines and solar farms to service hyperscalers’ data centers. It’s working closely with Google, Amazon, Meta, and more. Enbridge last year announced a massive solar farm campus to power a Meta data center complex outside of San Antonio. And it recently built the big Sequoia solar farm in Texas for Toyota and AT&T.

“In all of our businesses, both on the renewable side and the gas distribution and transmission side, we are hooking up or building projects for data centers for AI,” Ebel said.

White House whisperer

A native of Ottawa, before entering the energy sector, Ebel worked in the Canadian government and then with the World Bank in Washington, gaining a sharp literacy in North American politics.

That early career experience is serving him well now. From President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada and repeated taunts about making Canada the 51st state, Ebel has managed to help keep Canadian oil above the fray.

“There have not been, nor do I believe there will be, discussion of tariffs on Canadian energy coming south,” Ebel said, noting how crude oil is excluded from the tariffs. “It’s too important to energy dominance.”

He acknowledged he’s taking a lot more phone calls these days from the Trump and Carney administrations, the latter of whom is moving the Liberal Party to support more oil and gas pipelines. And Ebel is happy to help bridge any gaps between the two countries.

“Trade tensions are always going to be there,” Ebel said. “You’ve got big brother and little brother, but it is one North American family.

“I feel confident that symbiotic relationship will continue to be the ultimate driving force, despite whether we win or lose a gold medal in Olympic hockey, which is a sore point for