Dawn

Enbridge Inc.’s natural gas subsidiary is testing support through mid-July to boost firm transportation service capacity for up to 96,000 GJ/d (91,200 MMBtu/d) at the Dawn Hub in Eastern Canada. If there is enough demand, the Enbridge Gas Inc. expansion could launch by Nov. 1, 2027. Service could begin sooner, depending on support, Enbridge noted. …

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As Canada’s eastern natural gas storage and trading hub put an expansion into action on its 75th anniversary, a surge of western production began flowing Wednesday with a boost from a deep cross-country pipeline toll cut.

Planned maintenance on the Vector Pipeline starting Monday and continuing into next week could restrict up to 1 Bcf/d or more of volumes normally bound for eastern Michigan and the Dawn Hub in Ontario, Canada.

The next move to widen the natural gas freeway for imports into Canada from the United States began Tuesday when Spectra Energy’s Union Gas called for bids to increase traffic on its share of the route.

Canadian natural gas operator Union Gas Ltd. is holding a binding open season through Jan. 22 for up to 1 million gigajoules/day, or about 9.19 MMcf/d, of incremental firm capacity beginning in 2016 along three transportation paths that would offer access to the Dawn Hub and to Marcellus Shale supplies from Dawn, Niagara and Chippawa points. “Changing North American natural gas supply dynamics have increased market demand for Dawn to Parkway transportation capacity,” said Mark Isherwood, vice president of business development, storage and transmission. Customers in Eastern Canada and the U.S. Northeast would have access to the supply points by aligning Union service with capacity on TransCanada Corp. and interconnecting systems in the Lower 48 states. Capacity is being offered on Dawn to Parkway; Dawn to Kirkwall; and Kirkwall to Parkway. Contact Adam Stiers at astiers@uniongas.com or by fax at (519) 436-4643.

Spectra Energy has been busy building out infrastructure in the Northeast, where capacity is needed to get Marcellus and Utica gas to market. However, the Southeast and Gulf Coast regions are ripe for billions of dollars of investment as well, said Spectra’s Bill Yardley, president of the U.S. transmission and storage business.

Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. is holding a binding open season through 2 p.m. EST Nov. 15 for firm gas storage service at its Tecumseh Gas Storage facility near Dawn in southwestern Ontario.

At the dawn of the shale age, “location, location, location” matters as much to natural gas storage projects as it ever did. But robust supplies from shales have helped deflate the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) forward curve, leaving storage developers to ask, “Where did my spread go?”