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TransCanada’s Denning Lake Compressor Station is part of the NGTL System.

NGTL is essentially the sole provider of natural gas supply to the growing oil sands region in Alberta, Canada. 

Maple Compressor station, in Canada, is part of TransCanada’s Canadian Mainline natural gas pipeline system. 

Our natural gas pipelines transport more than 25 per cent of the continent’s daily supply used to heat homes, generate power and fuel industry. 

The Foothills Pipeline System, in Canada, is part of TransCanada’s North American natural gas transmission network, which taps into virtually every major gas supply basin and transports more than 25 per cent of the continent’s daily natural gas supply.

The Winchell Lake Compressor Station in Alberta, Canada.

TransCanada’s compressor stations re-pressurize natural gas along our pipelines to keep it flowing at a desired rate.

More than 2,000 residents in Mexico were employed during construction of the Tamazunchale Pipeline Extension.

Local and international contractors were key to successfully building the pipeline through some of Mexico's most mountainous terrain.

TransCanada acquired several natural gas assets in the United States, including the Hickory Bend Gathering System and Cryogenic Processing Plant, in Ohio, as part of the Columbia Pipeline Group acquisition in 2016.

The Clendenin Compressor Station in West Virginia is one of the U.S. natural gas assets TransCanada acquired, as part of the Columbia Pipeline Group acquisition in 2016.

Compressor stations re-pressurize natural gas along our pipelines to keep it flowing at a desired rate.

TransCanada’s Charleston Gas Control Centre in West Virginia is part of our extensive natural gas pipeline monitoring system, throughout North America.

TransCanada's Cartier Wind assets consist of five wind power projects with a power-generation capacity of 365 megawatts (MW).

Bruce Power is the world’s largest operating nuclear facility. TransCanada owns 48.5%, or 3,104 megawatts (MW) of Bruce Power’s capacity.

With eight reactors and 6,300 megawatts (MW) of total power-generation capacity, Bruce Power can generate 30% of Ontario’s power needs.

TransCanada’s Coolidge Generating Station in the United States, is a simple-cycle natural gas-fired peak power-generating station in Arizona.

The 12-turbine facility can provide up to 575 megawatts (MW) of power, enough electricity to power approximately 575,000 homes.

TransCanada’s Hardisty, Alta., oil tank storage facility in Canada is part of the Keystone Pipeline System.

Since TransCanada began operations in 2010, we have safely delivered more than 1.3 billion barrels of Canadian and U.S. oil to refineries in the U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast.

Cushing, Okla., is one of the United States oil facilities in the Keystone Pipeline System.

TransCanada’s 4,250-kilometre (2,640 mile) Keystone Pipeline System transports approximately 20 per cent of western Canadian crude oil exports to key refineries in the U.S. Midwest and Gulf Coast, where it is converted into fuel and other useful petroleum products.

Pipeline pigging, shown here at TransCanada’s Maple Compressor Station, in Ontario, Canada, is an in-line inspection procedure we undertake to check the internal condition of our pipelines.

It is a key part of our pipeline integrity and maintenance program.

TransCanada’s Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP&R) team prepares during an exercise. TransCanada is sharply focused on our strategic goal: To effectively respond to and remediate emergencies in a timely and coordinated manner.

All of TransCanada’s assets have a specific Emergency Response Plan (ERP) that outlines the steps we will take to respond in the unlikely event of an incident.

TransCanada’s state-of-the-art Oil and Natural Gas Operations Control Centres, in Calgary, Alta., Charlston, W.Va., Houston, Texas, and Mexico monitor all the company’s pipelines 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

For TransCanada, safety is incorporated every step of the way, beginning with proper planning and construction practices; while great training and practice help us respond accordingly if something does occur.

TransCanada works on construction of the Otter Lake Compressor Station, part of the NGTL System in northern Alberta, Canada, part of TransCanada’s North American natural gas pipeline network.

Compressor stations re-pressurize gas along a pipeline to keep it flowing at the desired rate.

A pipeline welder works on an extension of the NGTL System, in Northern Alberta, Canada.

New NGTL System infrastructure is required to transport natural gas between producing areas in northwest Alberta and growing market demands in northeast Alberta.

TransCanada continues to add new pipelines and extensions to meet demand throughout North America.

TransCanada undertakes natural gas pipeline maintenance and integrity work on a pipeline in our NGTL system.

TransCanada invests billions of dollars in integrity and preventive maintenance programs to ensure safe and reliable operations of our pipeline systems.