PrintNews Release
October 24, 2008
Spectra Energy Announces Open Season for Expanded Transportation Services
CALGARY, Alberta – Spectra Energy (NYSE: SE) is holding an open season to solicit participation in the expansion of the company’s Transportation North (“Zone 3”) natural gas transmission facilities in northern British Columbia.
Spectra Energy plans to construct up to 260 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d) of incremental eastbound transportation capacity for deliveries to interconnection points with TransCanada Pipelines and Alliance Pipeline near Gordondale, Alberta. Spectra Energy also plans to construct up to 135 mmcf/d of incremental westbound transportation capacity on its Fort St. John mainline for delivery to Spectra’s compressor station #2, near Chetwynd, British Columbia. These new facilities are expected to be in-service in the fourth quarter of 2009.
“We are offering new pipeline capacity to meet the growing demand for transportation service for emerging natural gas plays in British Columbia,” said Rob Whitwham, vice president, pipeline, Spectra Energy Transmission (West). “Customers will benefit from our ability to leverage our existing pipeline assets to develop cost effective and timely expansions while minimizing impacts on the environment, landowners, and other stakeholders in the area.”
Interested parties must submit a nomination form prior to the close of the open season period on Friday, November 7, 2008, at 12:00 p.m., MST. The details of the open season and the nomination 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 Kirsten Jaron, Director Marketing & Business Development, by telephone at 403-699-1578 or by email at kjaron@spectraenergy.com.
About Spectra Energy
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 18,000 miles of transmission pipeline, 265 billion cubic feet of storage, natural gas gathering and processing, natural gas liquids operations and local distribution assets. Spectra Energy Corp also has a 50 percent ownership in DCP Midstream, the largest natural gas gatherer and processor in the United States. For more information, visit www.spectraenergy.com.
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