Project Overview

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The proposed Enbridge Gateway Pipeline Project is an important part of Canada's energy future and will help ensure there's enough capacity to transport the anticipated increased production from Alberta’s oil sands.

In 2005, Enbridge initiated environmental, engineering, public consultation, aboriginal engagement and land field work to support a possible regulatory application for a petroleum export pipeline, a condensate import pipeline and a marine terminal as part of the Enbridge Gateway Project.

The export pipeline would transport petroleum from Strathcona County, northeast of Edmonton, to a new marine terminal in Kitimat on the north central coast of British Columbia, where it would be exported to market.

Additionally, the import pipeline would transport condensate, a liquid by-product of natural gas, from the new Kitimat marine terminal to Strathcona County. Both pipelines would be built in the same right-of-way. The decision whether to plan for one or both pipelines is subject to commercial considerations.

A Preliminary Information Package has been filed with regulatory agencies and the federal government. It is intended to inform potentially interested parties, and to permit federal regulators to define the regulatory review process to satisfy the requirements of the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency.

While field work is an important step in the development of the project, it will require commercial certainty to move forward. Enbridge is working with interested shippers to finalize agreements and initial pipeline capacity requirements.

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