tce-keynote-canadian-club-of-ottawa-en.pdf

This document is a comprehensive report on a company's activities throughout the preceding year.

The horizontal directional drilling (HDD) the Northern Courier Project completed under the Athabasca River in Alberta, Canada, turned out to be the longest 42-inch-wide HDD completed in North America to date at 2,195 metres (7,200 feet), in order to install the pipeline 70 metres below the riverbed.

After extensive testing in the lab, TransCanada is teaming up with Enbridge and the Government of Alberta for a pilot project that will see both companies install a new fiber optic-based monitoring system on short sections of their oil transmission networks to see how the product, developed by a small hi-tech company in Alberta, performs in the field.