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Historical Highlights
1940 – 1969
1947 |
February – Oil is struck! Discovery of the Leduc Oilfield near Edmonton, Alberta. |
1948 |
May – Imperial Oil’s Board of Directors approves plan to build a 450–mile pipeline to carry crude oil from the Leduc discovery from Edmonton, Alberta to Regina, Saskatchewan. |
1949 |
April 30 – Interprovincial Pipe Line Company is incorporated by a special act of Parliament. |
1949 |
November – Construction of the pipeline begins. The original plan to build the pipeline to Regina is changed – the pipeline will now be extended to Superior, Wisconsin. A U.S. affiliate, Lakehead Pipe Line Company, Inc., is established to operate the line in the United States. |
1950 |
October 4 – Alberta Premier Ernest Manning and Canada’s Minister of Industry and Commerce, C.D. Howe, open the valve on the mainline. The first oil arrives in Superior two months later. |
1953 |
The pipeline is extended 643 miles from Superior to Sarnia, Ontario. |
1953 |
February 13 – Interprovincial Pipe Line Company’s common shares are listed on the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges. |
1954 |
Capacity on the pipeline is increased between Edmonton and Superior through looping 455 miles of 24-inch pipe in Canada and 196 miles of 26-inch line in the United States. Sixteen additional pumps are added to the line. |
1957 |
The pipeline is extended from Sarnia to Clarkson and Port Credit in the Toronto area. |
1963 |
The pipeline is extended to Buffalo, New York. IPL becomes the largest crude oil carrier in North America. |
1968 |
July 1 – Pipeline operations are computerized. |
1968/69 |
The system is extended south to Chicago, Illinois and on to Sarnia (the Chicago loop), providing the company access to the upper Midwest markets of Chicago, Detroit and beyond. |
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1970 – 1999
1975/
1976 |
The pipeline is extended to Montreal, Quebec. |
1985 |
IPL completes construction of an 870-kilometre pipeline from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, to Zama, Alberta. |
1986 |
December 5 – IPL acquires Home Oil Company Ltd. |
1988 |
May 5 – IPL changes its name to Interhome Energy Inc. |
1991 |
May 1 – Interhome’s oil and gas business, conducted by Home Oil, a wholly-owned subsidiary, is spun off as a distinct publicly traded company, New Home Oil Company Limited. Interhome’s regulated pipeline business, conducted by wholly-owned subsidiaries Lakehead Pipe Line Company Inc. and Interprovincial Pipeline (NW) Ltd., becomes Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc. Interprovincial’s common shares are listed on NASDAQ and the Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges. The New Home common shares are listed on the Toronto and American stock exchanges. |
1994 |
May 5 – The company changes its name to IPL Energy Inc. |
1996 |
December 9 – IPL Energy acquires Consumers’ Gas, Canada’s largest gas distribution system serving more than a million customers in parts of Ontario, Quebec and New York State. |
1998 |
October 7 – IPL Energy changes its name to Enbridge. |
1999 |
Construction of the Enbridge Athabasca Pipeline which connects the oil sands and heavy oil deposits of Northeastern Alberta to the Hardisty, Alberta, pipeline hub and Enbridge’s mainline system. |
1999 |
Enbridge is awarded the exclusive franchise to develop and operate a natural gas distribution network for the province of New Brunswick. |
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2000 – Present
2000 |
September – Enbridge increases its interest in the OCENSA pipeline in Colombia to 24.7 per cent. Enbridge becomes the operator of the pipeline which is the major transporter of crude oil in Colombia. |
2001 |
April – Enbridge invests in the SunBridge wind power project in Saskatchewan. |
2001 |
May – Enbridge completes the acquisition of Midcoast Energy Resources of Houston. The US$600 million acquisition gives Enbridge an expanded presence in the natural gas business, and in the U.S. Gulf Coast and Mid-Continent regions, significantly expanding the company’s North American footprint. |
2001 |
October 30 – Enbridge Inc. common shares begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “ENB”. |
2002 |
March – Enbridge acquires a 25 per cent interest in Compañia Logistica de Hidrocarburos CLH, S.A., Spain’s largest refined products and transportation and storage business. |
2003 |
November – Enbridge and CCS Inc. open their jointly owned underground crude oil storage facility at Hardisty, Alberta. The Hardisty Caverns are Canada’s first crude oil storage facility. |
2005 |
January 1 – Enbridge acquires Shell Gas Transmission. The acquisition involves ownership interests in 11 natural gas transmission and gas gathering pipelines in five major offshore Gulf of Mexico corridors. |
2005 |
December – Enbridge announces it will commence construction on the Southern Access expansion project, which will add capacity to Enbridge’s mainline from Hardisty, Alberta to Chicago, Illinois, adding additional capacity from Superior to Delevan, Wisconsin and adding new pipeline from Delevan to Patoka, Illinois. |
2006 |
September 22 – The Chin Chute Wind Power Project, a joint venture between Enbridge, Suncor Inc. and Acciona Wind Energy Canada, is officially launched. Located 20 kilometres southwest of Taber, Alberta, the 30-megawatt facility provides enough clean electricity to power approximately 14,000 homes. |
2007 |
January 25 – Enbridge launches the Alberta Clipper and Line 4 extension projects. Alberta Clipper will be a new 990-mile(1590-kilometre) pipeline that will primarily follow Enbridge’s right-of-way on their existing mainline from Hardisty, Alberta, to Superior, Wisconsin. The Line 4 project will add capacity to the existing pipeline between Hardisty and Edmonton, Alberta. |
2008 |
Enbridge Gas Distribution, formerly known as Consumers Gas, celebrates 160 years in the community. Enbridge Gas Distribution now delivers safe and reliable natural gas to 1.9 million residential, commercial and industrial customers. |
2008 |
February 4 – Enbridge announces it will lead a group of energy industry participants in the Alberta Saline Aquifer Project (ASAP) that will identify suitable locations for the long term sequestration (storage) of carbon dioxide in deep saline aquifers - a solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
2008 |
June 17 – Enbridge sells its 25 per cent interest in Compañia Logistica de Hidrocarburos CLH, S.A. |
2008 |
October 23 – Enbridge opens the world’s first hybrid fuel cell power plant, which produces 2.2 megawatts of environmentally preferred, ultra-clean electricity, or enough power for approximately 1,700 homes. |
2009 |
March 17 – Enbridge announces the sale of its 24.7 per cent stake in the OCENSA pipeline to Ecopetrol, the Colombian national oil company. |
2009 |
April 3 – The Enbridge Ontario Wind Power project, located in the Kincardine, Ontario, is officially launched. The wind farm is capable of producing up to 190 megawatts (MW) of renewable electricity. |
2009 |
April 30 – Enbridge celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, operating 13,000 km of liquids pipelines across North America, extensive natural gas collection and transmission infrastructure in the United States and Canada’s largest retail natural gas distribution system; generating 260 Mw of green electrical production through its wind farms and leading research and commercialization of fuel cell and carbon storage. |
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