To avoid delays and US government ation, many small, medium and large odproduces in North Dakota have decided to run an oil pipeline north to Canada to meet up with a Canadian oil pipeline shipping oil from west to east. This allows the Bakken Basin and Three Forks od producers to get higher negotiated prices for their oil because they will not be restricted to just one wholesale market in the us. The distance Lutston. ND, ont box 85 miles or 137 from the biggest patch in ND. kilometers to the Canadian border and Manitoba. Mutual funds and joint ventures are big investors in new oil and gas pipelines as they are very long term and have set fees that both US and Canada that guarantee a profit to pipe the oil or gas or NGL Recently in the fall of 2012. the US. is now exporting propane to Europe, known as LPG. as wholesale prices there are much higher than in North America.