Aux Sable Canada
Aux Sable Canada L.P. (ASC) began operations in December 2000 with the startup of the Alliance Pipeline and Aux Sable’s Channahon Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Facility. The primary purpose of ASC at that time was to provide procurement services to the Channahon NGL Facility. These services included both natural gas feedstock purchases, and NGL purchases for injection into the Alliance Pipeline. Over time, these services evolved to include identifying and evaluating opportunities for energy infrastructure investments as well.
On December 31, 2005, ASLP entered into a long term NGL supply agreement whereby BP has the opportunity to provide some of the NGL and rich gas procurement services previously performed exclusively by ASC. ASC will continue to be active in procuring NGL supply and rich gas.
In addition to these procurement services, ASC will focus on a variety of energy infrastructure opportunities including:
- the processing of off-gas from bitumen upgrader operations;
- ethane extraction in Fort Saskatchewan; and
- new NGL injections and rich gas connections into the Alliance pipeline.
ASC’s first off-gas processing facility, the Heartland Off-gas Plant (HOP), is associated with the first phase of BA Energy’s Heartland Bitumen Upgrader, and was announced in October 2006. Construction on this facility will begin in the summer of 2007 and will be completed in late 2008 (see HOP fact sheet). A number of other similar facilities are at various stages of development.
Development of an extraction plant in Fort Saskatechewan, announced in March 2007, has progressed with start-up delayed from 2010 (see North Sable fact sheet).
New opportunities are constantly being evaluated and are expected to underpin ASC’s ability to grow predictable earnings.
In summary, ASC is a dynamic organization committed to building a safe, reliable energy infrastructure business within the growing Canadian energy industry. The company is led by an experienced management team with a proven track record and excellent industry relationships developed through many years in the natural gas processing and NGL businesses.
