By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 2 -- Terasen Pipelines (Trans Mountain) Inc., Calgary, has applied to Canada's National Energy Board for authorization to build and operate loops and oil pumping facilities that would increase capacity of the 710-mile Trans Mountain Pipeline in Alberta and British Columbia by 40,000 b/d.
In 2004, the Trans Mountain system moved 236,100 b/d of oil (see map, OGJ, Aug. 8, 2005, p. 26).
The proposed $400 million TMX-Anchor Loop project includes construction of 7 km of 30-in. pipeline from west of Hinton, Alta., to the Hinton pump station and 151 km of 36-in. pipeline from the station to near Rearguard, BC.
Terasen Pipelines also proposes building two electric-drive pump stations: the Wolf pump station in Alberta and the Chappel pump station in British Columbia.
Terasen Pipelines is a unit of Kinder Morgan Inc., Houston.