Alliance Pipeline Launches Alberta Open Season for New Heartland Gas Deliveries

Alliance Pipeline launched a March 2026 open season for up to 350 million cubic feet per day of new natural gas delivery capacity into Alberta’s Industrial Heartland, targeting service by late 2029.

(P&GJ) — Alliance Pipeline, owned and operated by Pembina Pipeline Corporation, launched a binding open season in March 2026 for up to 350 million cubic feet per day of incremental natural gas delivery capacity into Alberta’s Industrial Heartland.

The open season, announced March 2, covers proposed firm transportation service on the Canadian segment of the Alliance Pipeline system from designated receipt points in northwest Alberta to a new delivery point near Fort Saskatchewan. The process remained open through April 20, 2026.

Alliance said the proposed expansion would primarily rely on incremental compression upgrades along the existing Canadian pipeline network. If approved, the new service is expected to enter service during the fourth quarter of 2029 and would be backed by long-term take-or-pay contracts.

The expansion is aimed at increasing natural gas delivery options into Alberta’s Industrial Heartland, one of Canada’s largest petrochemical and industrial regions. Eligible receipt points include multiple zones across northwest Alberta connected to the Alliance system.

Alliance said the open season was available to both existing and prospective shippers. Interested parties were required to execute confidentiality agreements to receive additional commercial terms and precedent agreements.

The Alliance Pipeline system stretches about 3,848 kilometers (2,391 miles) across Canada and the United States, transporting rich natural gas from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and Williston Basin to the Chicago market hub. The system has been in service since 2000 and moves an average of 1.6 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas.