Pembina Pipeline has approved the construction of the C$570m ($412.8m) Heartland Extraction Plant (HEP) in Alberta, Canada.
The HEP will be a 750 million cubic feet per day (mcf/d) straddle facility designed to extract natural gas liquids (NGL) under Pembina’s extraction rights on the Yellowhead Pipeline
It is an expanded project, evolving from an earlier proposal for the Yellowhead Extraction Plant and incorporates additional capacity to address future opportunities. The HEP is scheduled to begin operations in late 2029. Pembina expects the development will strengthen its operations in the Alberta Industrial Heartland region.
The company has also entered into a long-term agreement to supply chemical producer Dow with ethane from the Heartland facility, starting from late 2029. Volumes are anticipated to reach 22,500 barrels per day (bpd) by the end of this decade. After extraction at the Heartland plant, the ethane-plus mix will be processed between Dow’s Fort Saskatchewan site and Pembina’s Redwater Complex.