Spectra Energy Announces Binding Open Season for Expanded Transportation
Services in Northeast British Columbia
CALGARY, Oct. 8 /CNW/ - Spectra Energy (NYSE: SE) is holding an open season to confirm customer requirements for additional transportation service on the company's Transportation North (T-North) natural gas transmission facilities in Northern British Columbia (BC).
Interested parties are invited to respond to a binding open season for up to 600 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of additional capacity on the Fort Nelson Mainline and up to 200 MMcf/d of additional capacity on the Fort St. John Mainline to provide firm transportation service between any T-North receipt point and any T-North delivery point. The new facilities are expected to be put into service in stages over the latter half of 2012 and the first half of 2013.
"We are offering new pipeline capacity to meet the growing demand for transportation service from the prolific producing regions in northeast British Columbia," said Rob Whitwham, vice president, pipeline, Spectra Energy Transmission West. "Securing long-term firm transportation contracts will enable us to expand our existing assets in the region, thereby enhancing market optionality for natural gas buyers and suppliers in BC."
Interested parties must submit a request for service form to Spectra Energy prior to the close of the open season period on Friday, October 29, 2010, at 3:00 p.m., MDT. The details of the open season and the request for service forms will be posted on www.wei-pipeline.com. For enquiries regarding the open season, customers should contact their Spectra Energy Strategic Account Manager, or Mel Thorp, director of marketing and business development, by telephone at 403-699-1578 or by email at [email protected].
Spectra Energy Corp (NYSE: SE), a FORTUNE 500 company, is one of North America's premier natural gas infrastructure companies serving three key links in the natural gas value chain: gathering and processing, transmission and storage, and distribution. For nearly a century, Spectra Energy and its predecessor companies have developed critically important pipelines and related infrastructure connecting natural gas supply sources to premium markets. Based in Houston, Texas, the company operates in the United States and Canada approximately 19,100 miles of transmission pipeline, more than 305 billion cubic feet of storage, as well as natural gas gathering and processing, natural gas liquids operations and local distribution assets. The company also has a 50 percent ownership in DCP Midstream, one of the largest natural gas gatherers and processors in the United States. Spectra Energy is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indexes and the U.S. S&P 500 Carbon Disclosure Project's Leadership Index for both Carbon Performance and Disclosure. For more information, visit www.spectraenergy.com.
For further information: For further information: Media: Lise-Ann Jackson, (403) 699-1506; Analysts: John Arensdorf, (713) 627-4600
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