“They’re fit-for-purpose design ...” “Each one of the technologies will likely be differently deployed in a different way. They’re fit-for-purpose design, which we’re going to have to take into account. It’s likely not going to be a one-size-fits-all silver bullet technology that’s going to win in the end. What the testing is going to tell us is performance under different conditions and then allow us to make good decisions about how to deploy it,” he said. Philipenko said Enbridge didn’t design ELDER with the idea to partner with industry, but the company nonetheless has teamed up with TransCanada with a Joint Industry Partnership regarding ELDER. That agreement was signed in to place in October 2013 and includes joint-funding for the project. In northwestern B.C. TransCanada may be more familiar as a natural gas pipeline proponent,
including their plan to build Coastal GasLink, a pipeline to feed the LNG Canada liquefaction facility. But TransCanada may look to applying findings from ELDER to oil pipeline proposals of their own, the highest profile of which is the Keystone XL which would be built into the United States. Enbridge, meanwhile, has already applied technologies from ELDER to active pipelines. Philipenko didn’t name which, but he said an 18 mile
stretch of an Enbridge pipeline in the United States has a cable laid down with it as part of a pilot project. The benefit of placing cables in real environments will also show any potential construction challenges to the technologies, as he said most construction contracts haven’t typically laid cable along pipelines. There is the ultimate goal that technologies refined in ELDER will be put to work on their proposed Northern Gateway project.
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