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The Northern Courier Pipeline (NCP) is a 90km pipeline system that has been laid to transfer bitumen and diluent products from the Fort Hills mine and bitumen extraction facility to Suncor’s East Tank Farm (ETF) located near the oil sand hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
It was originally approved for construction by the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) in July 2014.
“The C$800m ($745m) pipeline project was taken up as part of the C$13.5bn ($12.3bn) Fort Hills oil sands mining project.”
The C$800m ($745m) pipeline project was taken up as part of the C$13.5bn ($12.3bn) Fort Hills oil sands mining project, which is being developed by the Fort Hills Energy Limited Partnership (FHELP) comprising Suncor and its partners Teck Resources and Total SA.
The Alberta oil sands project achieved first oil production in January 2018 and is expected to produce up to 194,000 barrels of oil a day during the first year of production.
NCP was built by TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada) and is operated by TransCanada’s wholly owned subsidiary Northern Courier Pipeline GP.
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