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Inter Pipeline is an integrated energy infrastructure business that owns and operates four business segments:
- Conventional Oil Pipelines - Comprised of the Bow River, Central Alberta and Mid-Saskatchewan pipeline systems. Combined, these systems transport over 198,000 b/d to central and eastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan.
- Oil Sands Transportation - Comprised of the Cold Lake and Corridor Pipeline Systems this business segment has over 1,900 km of operating pipeline and 2.4 million barrels of storage. The Oil Sands Transportation business is the largest oil sands gathering business in Canada - transporting roughly 555,000 b/d of bitumen blend.
- NGL Extraction - Comprised of the Cochrane, Empress II and 50% ownership of Empress V extraction plants located on the TransCanada natural gas transmission system at the western and eastern Alberta export points. In 2008 these facilities processed an average of 3.3 bcf/d of natural gas producing an average of 121,900 b/d of natural gas liquids.
- Bulk Liquid Storage - Simon Storage Limited is the largest independent bulk liquid storage business in the United Kingdom. This business segment consists of eight bulk liquid storage terminals with a combined liquid storage capacity of approximately eight million barrels. Simon's integrated operations also offer a broad range of complementary services through its bulk liquid trucking, engineering, training and facilities management divisions.
Inter Pipeline is dedicated to growing each business segment by the optimization of our asset base through efficiency improvements and the addition of new value-added services. Inter Pipeline recently acquired the Corridor pipeline system, and has committed to completing the $1.8 billion expansion of this system which is expected to increase diluted bitumen capacity from 300,000 barrels per day to approximately 465,000 barrels per day by 2010. |