TransCanada's Bison Pipeline Complete -- Natural Gas Pipeline -- North Dakota, USA

TransCanada completed its 303-mile, 30-inch natural gas Bison Pipeline that runs from the Powder River Basin, north east Wyoming, up to North Dakota, where it will connect with the Northern Border Pipeline.

TransCanada says "The Rockies" was one of the last major North American natural gas basins that it was not connected to. Now, natural gas from the Rockies will flow to North Dakota, connect with the Northern Border Pipeline, and then flow to consumers in the Midwest.

The pipeline's initial capacity is 407 million cubic feet/day, all of which is already under long-term contract. The pipe's capacity if expandable to 1,000 million (1 billion) cubic feet/day.

TransCanada owns the pipeline indirectly through the firm's interest in TC Pipelines.

This new pipeline will do nothing for the natural gas flaring in North Dakota. That's a local problem. This TransCanada pipeline is simply a way of getting their natural gas from the Powder River Basin to their consumers farther east.