CALGARY, AB – Dominion Exploration Canada today announced
start-up of its new oil battery in the Pembina area of Alberta, west of Edmonton.
The $35 million expansion is designed to process 850,000 cubic metres (30 million
cubic feet) of natural gas and 3,000 cubic metres (18,900 barrels) of oil per
day.
The facility also is licensed for 345 tonnes of sulphur and
5,000 cubic metres of water per day. Dominion is operator of the facility and
maintains a 60 percent working interest.
Dominion will staff the facility continuously. Extensive monitoring
and control systems are in place, both in the battery and at the field sites
to ensure complete operational integrity at all times. Dominion has opened a
Pembina field support office approximately three kilometres north of the new
battery.
Dominion
Exploration Canada Ltd., headquartered in Calgary, is the Canadian division
of Dominion Exploration and Production Inc., a subsidiary of Dominion (NYSE:
D).
Dominion is one of the U.S.'s largest producers of energy,
with an energy portfolio of about 28,700 megawatts of generation, about 6.3
trillion cubic feet equivalent of proved natural gas reserves, and 7,900 miles
of natural gas transmission pipeline. Dominion also operates the North Americas
largest underground natural gas storage system with more than 965 billion cubic
feet of storage capacity and serves retail energy customers in nine U.S. states.
For more information about Dominion, visit the company's Web site at www.dom.com.
