Northern Border Pipeline is owned by Oneok Partners TC Pipelines and operated by TransCanada Pipelines. It has 1,249 miles of pipeline that brings gas from the Midwestern U.S. with reserves in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. (map)
According to Hart Energy Mapping and Data Services, the system has a capacity of 2.3 billion cubic feet per day and 17 compressor stations. Tenaska Marketing Ventures is its highest transport customer with 563,000 dekatherms per day (Dth/d) of capacity; followed by BP Canada Energy Marketing Corp. with 414,000 Dth/d. The rest of the Top 10 are Macquaried Energy LLC with 325,000 Dth/d; Sequent Energy Management, LP, with 317,000 Dth/d; ConocoPhillips Co. with 271,000 Dth/d; The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. with 210,000 Dth/d; Enterprise Products Operating LLC with 192,000 Dth/d; Northern Indiana Public Service Co. with 166,000 Dth/d; EDF Trading North America, LLC, with 166,000 Dth/d; and Interstate Power And Light Co. with 150,000 Dth/d.
According to Northern Border Pipeline Co.’s website, in addition to transporting Canadian-sourced supply, the company receives and transports natural gas produced in the Williston and Powder River Basins in the U.S. and synthetic natural gas produced at the Dakota Gasification plant in North Dakota.
Throughout 2010, the Port of Morgan interconnection was the most active receipt point. The most active delivery point was Ventura.
Contact the author, Rebecca Torrellas, at rtorrellas@hartenergy.com.
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