Alliance Pipeline, working in conjunction with Aux Sable Liquid Products, continues to be one of the cornerstones of our business. Operating together, Alliance and Aux Sable form a high value, total energy delivery system that is unique from any other long-haul natural gas transportation system in North America.
Alliance Pipeline, of which we own 50 percent, operates a 3,000-kilometre, 1.325 billion cubic feet per day (firm service), high-pressure natural gas pipeline. This system connects western Canada’s long-life natural gas reserves to large energy markets in the midwestern United States. Alliance transports a "rich" natural gas stream, primarily consisting of methane, but also including ethane, propane, butane and condensate, collectively referred to as “natural gas liquids” or “NGLs”. Transporting NGLs within the gas stream provides for a higher energy value, or heat content, which reduces the volumetric transportation cost.
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Alliance transports "rich" gas consisting of methane, ethane, propane, butane and condensates, making it a unique energy transportation system in North America.
As an integral part of this energy delivery system, Aux Sable operates a world-scale NGL extraction and fractionation facility located close to the terminus of the Alliance pipeline, near Chicago, Illinois. Aux Sable has the exclusive right to extract and sell the NGLs transported by Alliance. Once extracted, the component NGL products are sold to petrochemical, refinery, specialty chemical and propane heating markets throughout the midwestern United States.
Alliance’s significant gas gathering footprint in northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia allows Alliance and Aux Sable to benefit from the region's traditional gas supply sources. Western Canada’s emerging Montney shale gas play houses a potentially large new source of supply. Another important new supply source, closer to the U.S. market and within close proximity to Alliance, is the NGL-rich Bakken play that extends across southern Saskatchewan and North Dakota.
Alliance and Aux Sable proactively seek to attract rich gas supplies into Alliance through the construction of new pipeline laterals, gas processing and inducement services and a variety of gas transportation tolling mechanisms.
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