North Baja Pipeline

North Baja is an 80-mile natural gas pipeline system with a design capacity of 600 million cubic feet per day. It extends from Ehrenberg, Arizona to a point near Ogilby, California and connects with the Gasoducto Bajanorte natural gas pipeline system in Mexico. Initially built to serve electric generation load in Northwestern Mexico, North Baja was expanded in 2008 to increase its capacity and allow for bi-directional flow of volumes from an LNG facility on the Pacific coast of Mexico. North Baja Pipeline is operated by a subsidiary of TransCanada Corporation. TC PipeLines, LP owns 100 per cent of North Baja.
TC PipeLines, LP is a publicly traded limited partnership. TC PipeLines, LP has interests in approximately 3,700 miles of federally regulated U.S.interstate natural gas pipelines including Great Lakes Gas Transmission Limited Partnership (46.45 per cent ownership), Northern Border Pipeline Company (50 per cent ownership), Tuscarora Gas Transmission Company (100 per cent ownership) and North Baja Pipeline, LLC (100 per cent ownership). Great Lakes is a 2,115-mile pipeline serving markets in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and eastern Canada. The 1,249-mile Northern Border Pipeline transports natural gas from the Montana-Saskatchewan border to markets in the midwestern United States. Tuscarora owns a 240-mile pipeline system that transports natural gas from Oregon, where it interconnects TransCanada's Gas Transmission Northwest System, to markets in Oregon, Northern California, and Northwestern Nevada. North Baja is an 80-mile natural gas pipeline that extends from Southwestern Arizona to a point on the California/Mexico border and connects with a natural gas pipeline system in Mexico. TC PipeLines, LP is managed by its general partner, TC PipeLines GP, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada Corporation. TC PipeLines GP, Inc., also holds common units of the Partnership. Common units of TC PipeLines, LP are quoted on the NASDAQ Stock Market and trade under the symbol "TCLP".