Project Status

Received regulatory approval in November 2012; construction began in early 2013 with nearly 600 construction workers active on the project; pipeline scheduled to be operational by 2015

Capture sites: Agrium Fertilizer Plant and North West Sturgeon Refinery, both located in Sturgeon County
Enhanced Oil Recovery site: Clive, Alberta

Enhance Energy is building the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL). The ACTL is a 240 kilometre pipeline that will collect CO2 from industrial emitters in and around Alberta’s Industrial Heartland and transport it to aging reservoirs throughout central and southern Alberta for secure storage in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects. At full capacity the ACTL route will provide access to reservoirs capable of producing an additional one billion barrels of high quality light crude oil. These reservoirs will safely and securely store 14.6 million tonnes of CO2 per year as the oil is produced. At full capacity this will be equivalent to removing 2.6 million cars from Alberta’s roads. The ACTL will be the largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the world. The ACTL will lay the groundwork for a cost effective industry-wide solution to the management of CO2 emissions from Alberta’s upgrading, refining, power generation and petrochemical operations. The ACTL will form the backbone of a growing CO2 gathering and transportation infrastructure which encourages and enables wide scale CCS implementation.

Proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines project includes two adjacent 1,177 km pipelines between Bruderheim, Alberta and a deepwater terminal and tank farm in Kitimat, BC; the oil pipeline will carry 525,000 barrels of oil per day from Bruderheim to Kitimat and the second pipeline will carry 193,000 barrels of condensate per day from Kitimat to Bruderheim

Regulatory application submitted in 2010; Joint Review Panel final hearings currently underway with a decision expected end-2013; pending regulatory approval, construction will begin in 2014 with target completion in 2018

Announced project November 2012; pending approval from Lamont County, construction is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2013 with completion of the facility targeted for the second half of 2014

30,000 barrel per day de-ethanizer which will allow Keyera to process an ethane-rich stream of NGLs creating specification ethane for delivery  to petrochemical producers in Alberta and a  propane-rich stream of NGLs for delivery into Keyera’s fractionation facilities

Announced plans for the project September 2012; detailed engineering work is currently underway and certain long-lead items have already been ordered; targeting completion mid-2014

Announced May 2012, Maxim has entered into agreements to secure firm natural gas transportation service for the Deerland Peaking Station; project has received all required regulatory approvals for construction and operation; construction commenced in 2012 and Maxim anticipates the facility will commission in Q4 2013

Under construction with target completion in mid-2013

Regulatory application submitted in early 2013; pending regulatory approval, target construction start in 2013, with target completion mid-2014

Sanction decision was announced by the Partnership November 2012. NWR currently has a team of over 300 people working on the project and expects to employ over 8,000 people during peak construction, including sub-suppliers and module fabrication yards. The first 50,000 barrels per day phase of the bitumen refinery has a cost estimate of $5.7 billion and is expected to take approximately three years to build, with above ground construction starting in spring 2013.The facility is expected to be operational in 2016, with phases 2 and 3 to follow upon separate sanctioning.

Click here for sanction announcement media release - November 8, 2012

The gas-to-liquids facility would convert natural gas into high-quality transportation fuels and petrochemical feedstocks

Project feasibility study completed in 2012; preparation of regulatory application underway; announced in December 2012 plans to exercise their option to purchase project site in Strathcona County from Total

Quest is a fully integrated CCS project, meaning it would capture, transport, inject and store carbon dioxide (CO2); over one million tonnes of CO2 per year would be captured per year from the Scotford Upgrader beginning around 2015; the CO2 would then be transported safely by pipeline to an injection location north of Shell Scotford and stored permanently more than two kilometres deep under thick layers of impermeable geological formations 

Quest received regulatory approval for the project from the ERCB in July 2012; Shell began construction on the project in September 2012

Two parallel pipelines, approximately 500 km in length, from approximately 30 km northwest of Fort McMurray to the Edmonton area; associated Pipeline Installations will include: seven pump stations, four tank farms as well as two loading/unloading terminals

The project will consist of a dual pipeline system to transport crude oil and diluent between northern Alberta and the Heartland region; project includes the following components: crude oil pipeline designed and constructed to move blended bitumen from northwest of Fort McMurray to the Edmonton market, a diluent pipeline designed and constructed to move diluent from the Edmonton market to northwest of Fort McMurray, and associated facilities along the pipeline system, including pump stations, tank farms and loading/unloading terminals

Proposed project was announced in October 2012; regulatory approval will be sought in the spring of 2013; pending approval, construction will commence in the summer/fall of 2014 with target in-service in 2017

TransCanada is currently looking at the viability to construct a potential terminal project that would include up to six crude oil storage tanks with a total storage capacity of up to 1.9 million barrels; facility will occupy approximately 320 acres of current TransCanada owned lands 

Subject to receiving commercial support, regulatory application would be submitted in spring 2013; pending regulatory approval, construction will begin in spring 2014 with a target in-service date in the second half of 2015

Williams completed construction of the Boreal Pipeline in March 2012 and successfully commissioned the pipeline in May/June 2012; the pipeline is operational now and Williams is completing final clean-up on portions of the right-of-way from the Fort McMurray area to the Redwater Fractionation and Storage Facility

The facility is designed to convert propane into higher value propylene and will be the first and only of its kind in Canada; will have an initial capacity of approximately 500 kilotonnes annually of polymer-grade propylene with the ability to double capacity upon future expansion

Williams announced construction sanction decision in March 2013; pending necessary permits and approvals, the facility is expected to be in service in the second quarter of 2016

Williams is progressing on detailed engineering; estimated start up is May 2015