Natural Gas Liquids

Shell Canada Limited is a fully integrated producer, processor and marketer of Natural Gas Liquids (NGL’s) and Liquefied Petroleum Gases (LPG’s). Shell’s current combined LPG sales of ASTM specification grade ethane, propane and butane exceeds 50,000 barrels per day.

Shell’s has extensive infrastructure and storage facilities in Ft. Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Sarnia, Ontario. Shell’s Ft. Saskatchewan facilities can process 12,500 barrels per day with associated spec storage of 430,000 barrels. Sarnia’s facilities can process 15,400 barrels per day with spec storage of 787,000 barrels. These facilities are baseloaded with equity production and incremental third-party volumes for optimum utilization. To complete our sales offering, Shell’s Marketing and Transportation department (M&T) also operates a large fleet of rail cars to provide reliable freight transportation services.

Shell distinguishes itself as a secure and reliable supplier with a geographically diverse supply and marketing network. With western and eastern marketing offices, in Calgary and Sarnia, we are well positioned to meet our customers' needs from coast to coast. Shell provides transportation expertise and marketing services backed by premier facilities and infrastructure. We offer market competitive, publicly posted prices at our Edmonton and Sarnia supply locations. We strive to be our customers' LPG supplier of choice.

Shell supplies a diverse group of customers across Canada and the United States.

Ethane

Ethane is extracted from natural gas straddle operations and is primarily used as a petro-chemical feedstock. It can also be utilized in some miscible flood operations and enhanced oil recovery projects.

Propane

Propane is used for residential and commercial heating, auto-propane, industrial fuel applications and petro-chemical cracking. Shell markets to retailer, wholesaler and industrial consumers.

Butane

Butane is primarily sold to refineries for seasonal gasoline blending, MTBE manufacturers and petro-chemical cracking.