How long is Merrick Mainline Pipeline?

Merrick Mainline Pipeline is 260 km long.

How much gas can Merrick Mainline Pipeline carry?

Merrick Mainline Pipeline has a design capacity of 20.4 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.

Is Merrick Mainline Pipeline operating?

Merrick Mainline Pipeline is cancelled, with a reported start year of 2020.

Who owns Merrick Mainline Pipeline?

Merrick Mainline Pipeline is owned by TC Energy Corp, as recorded in the current tracker release.

Does Merrick Mainline Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?

Merrick Mainline Pipeline passes within 25 km of 1 tracked LNG terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

Merrick Mainline Pipeline, Canada

Route

Merrick Mainline Pipeline runs from Groundbirch to Summit Lake. The map draws the tracked route and any LNG terminal within 25 km of it.

Loads about 250 kB of map code and the country outline file.

From: Groundbirch
To: Summit Lake
Start country: Canada
End country: Canada
Countries crossed: Canada
Onshore / offshore: Not reported
Fuel: Gas
Region: Americas
Route drawn on map: 253 km
GEM pipeline ID: P0332
Start year: 2020
GEM wiki page: gem.wiki

Segments

Each row is one row of GEM's pipeline file. Project-level figures repeated on every segment are counted once in the totals above.

Segment	Status	From → to	Length	Capacity	Diameter	Start	Route from
Whole pipeline	Cancelled	Groundbirch → Summit Lake	260	20.4	1219 mm	2020	GEM's route file

Connected LNG terminals

Terminals whose coordinates fall within 25 km of this route, or whose name matches the pipeline. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection.

Terminal	Country	Import / export	Status	Distance	Matched by
Summit Lake PG LNG Terminal	Canada	Export	Proposed	11.5 km	route proximity

Owners and operators

Stakes as reported by GEM per segment, merged across segments.

Owners

TC Energy Corp100%

Parent companies

TC Energy Corp100%

Common questions

Generated from the same tracker fields as the tables above, so the two cannot disagree. Each answer stands on its own.

Where does Merrick Mainline Pipeline run?: Merrick Mainline Pipeline runs from Groundbirch to Summit Lake, crossing Canada.
How long is Merrick Mainline Pipeline?: Merrick Mainline Pipeline is 260 km long.
How much gas can Merrick Mainline Pipeline carry?: Merrick Mainline Pipeline has a design capacity of 20.4 bcm/y. Where every segment of a project repeats the same figure it is counted once rather than summed.
Is Merrick Mainline Pipeline operating?: Merrick Mainline Pipeline is cancelled, with a reported start year of 2020.
Who owns Merrick Mainline Pipeline?: Merrick Mainline Pipeline is owned by TC Energy Corp, as recorded in the current tracker release.
Does Merrick Mainline Pipeline serve an LNG terminal?: Merrick Mainline Pipeline passes within 25 km of 1 tracked LNG terminal. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection; each match is listed with its distance and how it was made.

Background on the technology and the terms used on this page.

LNG against pipeline gas
A pipeline delivers gas at lower cost than LNG over land up to roughly two to four thousand kilometres, beyond which liquefaction wins, and across any significant body of deep water LNG usually wins at any distance.
How LNG works
Liquefied natural gas is natural gas chilled to about minus 162 degrees Celsius, at which point it becomes a liquid roughly 600 times smaller than the gas, so it can be shipped where no pipeline runs.
Mtpa, bcm and cubic metres
LNG capacity is quoted in three incompatible units, and the two conversions that matter are 1 million tonnes a year equals about 1.36 billion cubic metres of gas a year, and 1 cubic metre of liquid equals about 600 cubic metres of gas.
What terminal status actually means
A project status describes how far an LNG terminal or train has progressed, and the gap between proposed and operating is the single most misread number in the industry.