Canada natural gas production

Natural gas flows will increase for thermal oilsands production following approval Thursday of a C$632 million ($474 million) pipeline expansion in northern Alberta.

The Canada Energy Regulator (CER) authorized the North Corridor Project to add 81 kilometers (49 miles) of pipe and a compressor to TC Energy Corp.’s western supply grid, Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL).

After more than two decades of deliveries for oilsands production “it continues to be a key area of growth,” said NGTL’s construction application.

Delivery contracts for 375 MMcf/d, from the Montney Shale and other gas formations in Alberta and British Columbia, support the NGTL project. Demand generated by gas-fired bitumen extraction processes nearly doubled between 2011 and 2018 to 2.5 Bcf/d, a...