Project Profile
Value: US$170 million (Saturn II) US$200 million (Saturn I)
Capacity: 13,500 barrels per day of liquids from natural gas volumes
Location: west-central Alberta, Canada
Length: 83 kilometre
Start-up year: fourth quarter of 2013
Pembina operates a 200 million cubic feet per day (mmcf/d) enhanced natural gas liquids (NGL) extraction facility (the Saturn I Facility) and associated NGL and gas gathering pipelines in the Berland area of west central Alberta. The Saturn I Facility is connected to the Wild River and Bigstone gas plants through existing and newly constructed gas gathering lines.
Saturn I launched in October 2013 with associated pipelines and infrastructure, and capacity of 13,500 bpd of liquids. It is linked via an 83 kilometer, 8-inch NGL pipeline to transport the extracted NGL from the Saturn Facility to Pembina\'s Peace Pipeline, which delivers product into Edmonton, Alberta. Pembina expected the Saturn Facility, associated NGL and gas gathering pipelines and storage to cost approximately US$200 million and subject to regulatory and environmental approval.
In March 2013, Pembina announced the second Saturn deep cut facility, dubbed Saturn II, which would lift additional NLG from raw gas streams in the Berland area of Alberta at an estimated US$170 million capital cost. Pembina entered into a service contract for 130 MMcf/d from Saturn II, enough to book 65% of the facility’s total capacity. Saturn II extracts around 13,000 bpd of NGL from Saturn II via the same pipeline for Saturn I, onward to the Peace Pipeline and into the Edmonton, Alberta Area. The project was launched in August 2015.
Operator:
Pembina Pipeline Corp.: Operator with 100% interest