Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline

About Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline

Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (M&NP) is a 1,400-kilometre transmission pipeline system built in 1999 to transport natural gas from developments offshore Nova Scotia to markets in Atlantic Canada and the northeastern United States. A joint venture of Spectra Energy (77.53%), Emera Inc. (12.92%), and ExxonMobil Canada (9.55%), M&NP is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The M&NP system consists of 30"/24" mainline that runs from the Sable Offshore Energy Inc. (SOEI) gas plant at landfall in Goldboro, through Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

The mainline interconnects with the Corridor Pipeline in central New Brunswick, Portland Natural Gas Transmission System, Tennessee Gas Transmission, and Algonquin Gas Transmission. Through lateral pipelines M&NP serves Canadian markets in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

M&NP’s customers include natural gas producers; large industrial users such as pulp and paper manufacturers, refineries, power generators; and local distribution companies.

With an established pipeline system in place, M&NP is well-positioned to respond to growth in both East Coast gas supply and end-use markets in Eastern Canada and the US Northeast. Through the addition of compression and pipeline looping, M&NP can flexibly increase its throughput to transport incremental gas supply to market.
 

M&NP is currently investing in its fourth phase of expansion with the addition of fivenew compressor stations in Maine. Upon completion of the Phase IV project in late 2008, M&NP will have enhanced gas supply diversity – transporting natural gas produced offshore and onshore, as well as re-gasified LNG from the CanaportTM LNG terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick.  Planning for the Phase V Expansion is also currently underway to transport natural gas from EnCana’s Deep Panuke project proposed in 2010.

Additional information is available at www.mnpp.com.