Alberta Carbon Grid

The Alberta Carbon Grid™ (ACG) is a world-scale carbon transportation and sequestration system being designed to serve multiple customers, industries, and sectors. Once fully constructed, the ACG aims to transport and sequester more than 20 million tonnes of CO2 annually – almost 10 per cent of Alberta’s industrial emissions and has an important role to play to support Alberta’s lower-carbon economy.

The Partnership

Pembina Pipeline Corporation (Pembina) and TC Energy Corporation (TC Energy) are working together to develop an open-access carbon transportation and sequestration system. Both companies have decades of experience in safe and reliable development, construction, and operations of infrastructure solutions with, and on behalf of, customers, investors, communities and employees. The ACG is part of Pembina’s and TC Energy’s ongoing commitment to energy diversification, industry collaboration, and a lower-carbon future that benefits the environment and the Alberta economy. We are excited about the potential to create an effective and strategic solution with and for these key stakeholders.

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About the Project

Alberta Carbon Grid™ is designed to connect regions of large concentrations of emissions to key sequestration locations and delivery points across the province, with opportunities for further expansion.

  • ACG is a carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) project that aims to transport more than 20 million tonnes of CO2 annually – about 10 per cent of Alberta’s emissions from multiple customers, industries, and sectors
  • In addition to using new assets, existing infrastructure, and a newly developed carbon sequestration hub, ACG is planned to connect the province’s largest regions of industrial emissions, for example, the Fort McMurray Alberta Industrial Heartland, Edmonton-area emitters, and the Drayton Valley region, to key sequestration locations
  • As an industry-wide solution, ACG will have an impact to reduce GHG emissions and contribute positively to Alberta’s lower-carbon economy
  • ACG has a vital role to play in addressing climate change by directly contributing to Alberta’s plans to create a clean hydrogen economy, enhance petrochemical facilities, and to help achieve Canada’s enhanced climate targets
  • Based on initial studies, the ACG sequestration reservoir is expected to be capable of providing decades of safe and reliable CO2 storage capacity
  • ACG is progressing towards an advanced stage of readiness and has the potential to be operational in advance of Canada’s enhanced 2030 emissions targets

Major Projects

WhiteWater Midstream 185 Mile Blackfin Pipeline Approval

February 2023 WhiteWater Midstream requested the Texas Railroad Commission for a new 185 mile pipeline permit for the Blackfin pipeline ...

Oilsands group pledges to spend $16.5B on carbon capture project by 2030

Canada's biggest oilsands companies say they will spend $16.5 billion before 2030 on a massive proposed carbon capture and storage ...

Alberta Carbon Grid gets go-ahead to evaluate 900,000-hectare potential CCUS site

TC Energy Corp. and Pembina Pipeline Corp. have agreed with the Government of Alberta to further evaluate a 900,000-hectare area ...

ExxonMobil to capture and store 2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in Louisiana

ExxonMobil will then transport and permanently store the captured CO2 in secure geologic storage it owns in Vermilion Parish. As ...

Alberta selects 19 more CCS proposals

Alberta has selected 19 new proposals to develop carbon storage hubs in the Canadian province ...

Province invests over $15 million in northeastern B.C. clean energy projects

The province of BC has announced that it is investing in projects that will reportedly reduce climate pollution, create job ...

Cedar LNG receives extension to build BC terminal

A four-year Canadian export license extension has been granted to the delayed Cedar LNG project, which will be sited on ...

Alberta to lead the country in renewables boom

The following are the top five projects slated to come online this year: Buffalo Plains Wind Farm, generating 514.6 MW; ...

Ironwood Midstream to build 24 Mile Pipeline to link KARNES to GONZALES

Ironwood Midstream formed in 2015 to provide oil and gas producers with midstream services in the Permian Basin and the Eagle ...

Energy Transfer approval for new pipeline named Warrior

Energy Transfer get regulatory approval for the Midland Express AKA Warrior pipeline project that will connect natural gas in the ...

LNG plant for Port Edward

A small-scale liquefied natural gas facility planned at Port Edward is the latest project to offer the potential for rate ...

Whistler Pipeline Capacity Expansion

WhiteWater today announced the expansion of the Whistler Pipeline’s mainline capacity through the planned installation of three new compressor stations ...

Pipeline slated to carry Bakken oil toward a Wyoming hub

Bridger Pipeline is building the 145-mile South Bend Pipeline from Johnsons Corner in McKenzie County to one of the company’s ...

Woodfibre LNG construction is a go

After years of delays, the $1.6 billion Woodfibre LNG project in Squamish is finally officially a go ...

TC Testing Support to Expand Marketlink Oil Transport from Oklahoma to Texas Coast

TC Energy Corp. is gauging customer interest in oil transportation services that would connect Oklahoma crude supply with downstream refining ...

Enbridge CEO – Canadian LNG sector anticipating new projects

Canadian oil and gas leaders believe the window is opening once again to build new liquefied natural gas projects in ...

Imperial renewable diesel Strathcona refinery

Imperial plans to construct a world-class renewable diesel complex at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton, Alberta ...

Six proposed carbon storage hubs in Alberta

The province Alberta on March 31 selected six proposals to move forward with developing Canada's first carbon storage hubs, intended ...

Pembina and TC Energy Partner to Create World-Scale Carbon Transportation and Sequestration Solution: The Alberta Carbon Grid

Pembina's proposed acquisition of Inter Pipeline Ltd. ("IPL"), ACG is designed to connect the province's largest sources of industrial emissions ...

Enhance Energy announces the Origins Project, a Carbon Sequestration Hub in Central Alberta

Enhance Energy, operator of Alberta's largest CCUS initiative and founding partner of the Alberta Carbon Trunk Line (ACTL) Project, has ...