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August 2013
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Vol. 18, No. 32 Week of August 11, 2013

TransCanada plans British Columbia link

TransCanada has locked in plans for a C$1.5 billion pipeline in northeastern British Columbia to provide 2 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas to support the Pacific Northwest LNG project controlled by Malaysia’s Petronas.

Through its wholly-owned Nova Gas Transmission, TransCanada has signed agreements with Progress Energy Canada, operator of Pacific Northwest, for firm transportation services to underpin a major pipeline extension to the Nova system.

The North Montney Mainline project will “provide substantial new capacity ... in response to the rapidly increasing development of natural gas resources” in British Columbia’s dominant gas region, said Karl Johannson, TransCanada’s president of natural gas pipelines.

“The long-term, large volume commercial commitments that have been secured provide strong support for the project,” he said.

The line will be a large diameter extension from the existing Groundbirch Mainline section of the Nova network, covering about 180 miles.

Under the commercial arrangements with Progress, receipt volumes will ramp up between 2016 and 2019, with delivery volumes to TransCanada’s proposed C$5 billion Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project to the Pacific Northwest export facility near Prince Rupert reaching 2.1 billion cubic feet per day by 2019.

Nova is involved in discussions with other parties that have expressed interest in obtaining transportation services that would use the North Montney Mainline facilities.

The company is also engaged in First Nations, landowner and community engagement and consultation activities for the project.

Johannson expects an application will be filed with the National Energy Board later this year to build the pipeline in three stages.

—Gary Park






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