MORE CANADIAN PIPELINE EXPANSIONS ON TAP

Canadian pipelines continue to press system expansions. National Energy Board (NEB) last week received an application from Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc. (IPL), Edmonton, for a permit to add $258.2 million (Canadian) in crude oil pipeline facilities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in 1994. NEB last week also received an application from InterCoastal Pipe Line, also of Edmonton, for a $45.6 million gas pipeline in Ontario as part of a larger U.S.-Canadian system.

July 19, 1993

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Canadian pipelines continue to press system expansions.

National Energy Board (NEB) last week received an application from Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc. (IPL), Edmonton, for a permit to add $258.2 million (Canadian) in crude oil pipeline facilities in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in 1994.

NEB last week also received an application from InterCoastal Pipe Line, also of Edmonton, for a $45.6 million gas pipeline in Ontario as part of a larger U.S.-Canadian system.

IPL PROJECT

IPL's July 12 application covers facilities needed to expand its Edmonton-Gretna, Man., system throughput by 110,000 b/d (OGJ, July 5, p. 28).

Included are plans to lay about 422 miles of 16 in. line in or adjacent to IPL's right-of-way from Edmonton to Regina, Sask., reactivate an idle line between Regina and Cromer, Man., change transportation service from crude oil to mainly refined products from Cromer to Gretna, and add pump stations or modify existing stations to service the expanded system.

IPL also plans to add one 150,000 bbl storage tank each at Edmonton and Regina.

INTERCOASTAL PROJECT

InterCoastal's proposal is part of a larger project that includes construction and operation of pipeline facilities in the U.S. by Coastal Corp. unit ANR Pipeline Co., Detroit.

ANR expects soon to ask the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a permit to lay a 12 mile lateral to connect the InterCoastal line with ANR's underground storage and pipeline facilities in St. Clair County, Mich. The overall system is to have capacity to deliver 133 MMcfd to eastern Canada and the U.S. Northeast during Nov. 1, 1994-Oct. 31, 1996, and as much as 175 MMcfd after that.

InterCoastal proposes to convert 130.3 miles of IPL crude pipeline to natural gas service. That line extends from IPL's Sarnia, Ont., terminal to Millgrove junction in Hamilton-Wentworth.

It also plans to lay 12.2 miles of 24 in. line from a point interconnecting with ANR's system at the U.S.-Canada border under the St. Clair River to an interconnect with IPL's system at Sarnia. Included in the proposal is a 1.2 mile, 24 in. lateral from a point about 4.6 miles from the St. Clair interconnect to the Tecumseh interconnect of gas storage facilities owned by Consumers' Gas Co. Ltd.

IPL also plans to lay about 13.9 miles of 20 in. line to interconnect with Consumers' distribution grid south of Oakville, Ont.