Pacific Trail Gas Pipelines

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Pacific Trail Gas Pipelines is a proposed natural gas pipeline in Canada.

Location

The pipeline runs from Summit Lake, British Columbia, Canada to Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada.

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Project Details

• Operator: Enbridge
• Owner: Enbridge
• Parent: Enbridge
• Length: 471 kilometers
• Capacity: 4,000 million cubic feet/day
• Diameter:
• Status: Proposed
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Background

The Pacific Trail Pipelines is part of a bigger joint venture between Chevron Canada and Apache Canada Ltd. The 463-kilometre pipeline will deliver gas from Summit Lake, B.C., to a liquefied-natural-gas (LNG) facility in Kitimat. With a capacity of 10 million tonnes per year, the Kitimat LNG plant is seen as, potentially, the first of its size in Canada to export to Asian markets. A group of Wet’suwet’en have set up a camp blocking the route of the Pacific Trail Pipelines.

The original joint owners of the project were Chevron (50%) and Apache (50%). In December 2014, Woodside Petroleum of Australia bought Apache's stake in the Kitimat LNG Terminal project, the associated Pacific Trail Gas Pipeline, and accompanying upstream oil and gas reserves for US$2.75 billion.

As of January 2019 the pipeline had received its Environmental Assessment certificate, but the investment agreement has yet to be finalized.

In December 2019, Chevron announced plans to divest its 50% interest in the Kitimat LNG Terminal and associated pipeline, and also announced plans to cease any further funding. In May 2021, Woodside Petroleum also exited its 50% interest.

In January 2020, Enbridge, announced they had purchased the project from Chevron and Woodside Petroleum. In a letter to Indigenous and non-Indigenous stakeholders along the route of the proposed Pacific Trail Pipeline (PTP), Jennifer Prochera, a community and Indigenous relations advisor for Enbridge said, “At this time, we are continuing to evaluate the PTP project and have no timing on whether the project will proceed, but we are excited about how this potential project fits into the energy transition and may be used to help countries achieve their climate change commitments.”