Oil and natural gas pipeline industry

Transmission pipelines are used to transport the crude oil and natural gas produced in remote areas of Canada to the urban centres and export markets where they are consumed. Pipelines are the vital links that connect oil and natural gas producers with the consumers that rely on a steady supply of these products.

Sometimes measuring more than a metre in diameter, liquid petroleum pipelines and high-pressure natural gas pipelines carry their products over long distances from producers and processing plants to local distribution companies or directly to large industrial consumers.

In 2002, the transmission pipeline industry consisted of almost 110,000 kilometres of pipeline and carried about 136,662,600 cubic metres of crude oil and about 6.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Impact Air        Greenhouse gases Land        Pipeline construction and land reclamation        Wildlife habitat        Spills