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TransCanada owns about 62 per cent of PNGTS, a 471-kilometre, 220 million cubic feet per day interstate natural gas pipeline. It connects with the TQM near East Hereford, Quebec and has delivery points in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, including the Boston area. About 170 km (107 miles) of the PNGTS System consists of joint facilities with Maritimes and Northeast Pipeline, which continues to operate the joint facilities through their affiliate M&N Operating Company.
As an active, hands-on partner in PNGTS, TransCanada is continuously looking at ways to optimize effectiveness and efficiency," says Jim McPherson, our representative on the PNGTS Management Committee and Director, Sales and Marketing, Gas Transmission East. "This arrangement will seek to gain operational and commercial efficiencies around costs, consistency of standards and procedure and to eliminate duplication of effort."
The PNGTS System is controlled by the same gas controller responsible for the eastern portion of the Canadian Mainline.
"For the first time, PNGTS gas control and gas nominating and scheduling functions are being coordinated at the same location," says Dick Leehr, president PNGTS. "This further integrates and improves daily scheduling, communications and operations planning for our customers."
During 2004, TransCanada also integrated gas control operations of the Simmons pipeline system. Our Calgary gas control facility now monitors and controls operations for the Alberta, Foothills, BC, Canadian Mainline, Tuscarora, Trans-Québec & Maritimes (TQM) and PNGTS Systems.
For more information, please contact Tim Gibson at 403.920.6812.
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