Mackenzie Pipeline's Fate En Doubt Amid Shale Gas Boom

摘要

When Imperial Oil, Mobil Oil Canada, Gulf Oil Canada, Royal Dutch Shell and the Aboriginal Pipeline Group formed a consortium in 1999 to promote a gas pipeline from the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories to existing pipelines in Alberta, they expected the line would be flowing gas - perhaps as much as 1.2 billion cubic feet per day (12.4 billion cubic meters per year) - by now.