Alberta Working to Expand Natural Gas-Fired Petrochemical Projects with Inter Pipeline Grant The Alberta government on Monday awarded a C$408 million ($326 million) grant to Inter Pipeline Ltd. for new industrial projects that use natural gas and its liquid byproducts as raw materials. Inter Pipeline is receiving the grant through the Alberta Petrochemicals Incentive Program (APIP) in three annual installments after the scheduled completion of its C$3.9 billion ($3.1 billion) Heartland Petrochemical Complex near Edmonton in early 2022. The plant would consume 22,000 b/d of propane to make 525,000 tons/year of polypropylene, an intermediate mainstay for manufacturing a wide array of synthetic end products from auto and television parts to medical and sports hardware.