Enbridge/Alliance Offers Post-2015 Capacity -- Huge NG Pipeline Story; This Is What The Keystone XL Could Have Been (Oil, Of Course)

Updates

October 29, 2013: the Alliance pipeline was completed September 1, 2013; won't go into service until Hess Tioga natural gas processing plant enlarged. I track pipelines of interest here. 
 

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Press release:

Unlike most natural gas pipelines, the Alliance system is capable of transporting methane and entrained NGL in a dense phase stream. Alliance's rich gas design allows producers to avoid costly investments in gas plant processing infrastructure. The Aux Sable Liquid Products plant at the Alliance system's southern end near Chicago extracts and fractionates the various NGL components into specific marketable products. Alliance's average annual capacity is 1.6 bcf/day and the system is in proximity to more than 6 bcf/d of natural gas supply looking for attractive markets.

From the Alliance website:

The Alliance Pipeline system consists of 3,719-kilometre (2,311-mile) integrated Canadian and U.S. high-pressure natural gas transmission pipeline system, delivering rich natural gas from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and the Williston Basin to the Chicago market hub. The United States portion of the system consists of approximately 900 miles of mainline and related infrastructure. The system has been in commercial service since December 2000 and delivers, on average, about 1.6 billion standard cubic feet (or 45.3 million standard cubic metres) of natural gas per day. 

The Alliance has its own wiki page:

Alliance Pipeline is a natural gas transmission system that transports high-energy, rich natural gas from northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta through Saskatchewan, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa to its terminus in Illinois.

Approximately 1.6 Bcf/d of rich natural gas is safely delivered to Chicago each day, supplying approximately 5% of the residential natural gas needs for this market. The system, including lateral and delivery segment lines, is more than 3,719 km (2,311 mi) long with 14 mainline compressor stations—seven in Canada and seven in the United States. The compressors are driven by 31,000 to 46,000 horsepower (23 to 34 MW) gas turbines—similar to the turbines that power large airplanes.