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15%
Texas natural gas
Enbridge Energy Partners transports approximately 15% of Texas natural gas production.
Enbridge Offshore Pipelines has a premier position in the Gulf of Mexico, with interests in 11 transmission and gathering pipelines in five major pipeline corridors in Louisiana and Mississippi offshore waters.
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The Alliance System transports natural gas from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin to the U.S., extending 3,000 kilometres (1,875 miles) from Fort St. John, British Columbia, to Chicago, Illinois.
Connecting with the Alliance System at Chicago, the 560-kilometre (348-mile) Vector Pipeline provides natural gas supplies for local distribution and end-user customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ontario.
GAS PIPELINES
Enbridge’s natural gas pipelines are superbly positioned to take advantage of growth in the key strategic gas producing and consuming regions of North America.
Through Enbridge Offshore Pipelines, we are growing our natural gas gathering, processing and transmission infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico, where today we transport approximately 40% of all current deepwater natural gas production. This further positions us to transport natural gas into the U.S. northeast and southeast.
The Company has major stakes in the Alliance and Vector systems which transport natural gas from Western Canada to the U.S. Midwest and southern Ontario. Vector expanded capacity in 2007 to 1.2 billion cubic feet per day from 1 billion cubic feet per day and is now planning for the next expansion expected to be completed by 2009. Both of these expansions are underpinned by long-term contracts. Alliance is well positioned for opportunities arising from the development of natural gas in northeast British Columbia, Alaska and Canada’s arctic region.
Enbridge Energy Partners is a large and growing natural gas gatherer and processor in the Anadarko Basin, Barnett Shale and Bossier Sands of Texas, which are three of the top four areas for natural gas development in the United States.
NATURAL GAS PIPELINES GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES
Gulf of Mexico offshore is a prolific natural gas region where Enbridge has two new pipelines–Atlantis, which started up in December 2007, and Neptune which is expected to start up this year. A third– the Thunder Horse lateral pipeline to our Okeanos System–is expected to be in service in late 2008.
Prospects for growth in processing and gathering pipelines to serve Texas onshore natural gas production are strong.
Longer term, Alliance and Vector are well positioned to connect Arctic natural gas development to U.S. and eastern Canadian markets.