Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, LLC
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Summary
Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, LLC (M&NP U.S.) owns the U.S. segment of the 650-mile onshore pipeline system that ships processed natural gas from offshore eastern Canada to markets in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the U.S. Northeast. The Canadian mainline – capacity of 580,000 million British thermal units (mmBtu; 552 million cubic feet per day) – extends for 568 kilometres (340 miles) from Goldboro, Nova Scotia, to the Canada-U.S. border near St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Lateral pipelines extend to Halifax (124 kilometres or 74.4 miles), Saint John (103 kilometres or 61.8 miles) and Point Tupper, Nova Scotia (56 kilometres or 33.6 miles). The U.S. mainline – capacity of 440,000 mmBtu (428 million cubic feet per day) – extends for 498 kilometres (300 miles) from Baileyville, Maine, to Dracut, Massachusetts, and reaches the Boston area through the Phase III expansion, completed in November 2003.