TransCanada’s NGTL Files $2.3bn Expansion Plan
TransCanada’s Nova Gas Transmission Limited (NGTL) on June 20 filed an application with Canadian regulator National Energy Board (NEB) for its $2.3bn (US$1.7bn) 2021 expansion plan. A project description was filed with the NEB in February 2018.
“The project is required to increase NGTL system capability to transport gas from areas where supply is growing, and also to meet delivery requirements in areas where market demand is growing,” NGTL said in its application. “Customers have signed long-term contracts for firm receipt and delivery transportation services that exceed capacity of the NGTL System beginning in 2021.”
The added facilities will allow an estimated 1.1bn ft3/day of incremental firm transportation to NGTL’s Eastern Gate at Empress, in southeastern Alberta.
The project, which requires an environmental assessment under the NEB Act and is subject to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, consists of some 344 km of pipeline loops in eight sections in the Grande Prairie and Edson regions, three compressor station unit additions at Nordegg, Didsbury and Beiseker, and various other valves and pig launcher and retriever facilities.
“The project will expand pipeline capacity to transport gas from areas of increasing natural gas production in the Peace River Project Area (PRPA) to intra-basin and export markets,” NGTL said in its 244-page NEB application.
The company is asking for NEB approvals in time to meet a commercially-required in-service date for the new facilities in April 2021. Construction, it said, would begin in 3Q 2020, subject to regulatory approval.