Pembina Pipeline Corporation declared plans to proceed with an expansion of its existing natural gas liquids (NGL) infrastructure at a combined capital cost of approximately $1 billion.

Pembina's expansion comprises three integrated components along the NGL value chain, as follows:

• the twinning of its 200 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) Saturn deep cut facility (Saturn II) to extract valuable NGL from raw gas streams in the Berland area of Alberta; • the twinning of its 73,000 barrel per day (bpd) ethane-plus fractionator (RFS II) at its Redwater site, near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta; and • the Phase II NGL pipeline capacity expansion of its Peace/Northern NGL System to accommodate increased NGL volumes.

"These projects mark the next stage of our growth in the NGL business," said Bob Michaleski , Pembina's Chief Executive Officer. "The projects are all extremely complementary and position us well to offer integrated services across the NGL value chain. With our existing ethane-plus infrastructure and marketing capability, we can offer a competitive, cost-effective solution for incremental ethane-plus production from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin."

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