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===Merger with Spectra Energy=== On September 6, 2016, Enbridge agreed to buy [[Spectra Energy]] in an all-stock deal valued at about $28 billion.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/enbridge-to-buy-spectra-energy-in-28-billion-deal-1473160931|title=Enbridge to Buy Spectra Energy in $28 Billion Deal|last1=Dawson|first1=Chester|date=2016-09-06|last2=McKinnon|first2=Judy|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|issn=0099-9660|access-date=2016-09-07}}</ref> Spectra, headquartered in [[Houston, Texas]], operated in three key areas of the [[natural gas]] industry: transmission and storage, distribution, and gathering and processing. Spectra was formed in late 2006 as a [[Corporate spin-off|spin-off]] from [[Duke Energy]]. Spectra owned the [[Texas Eastern Pipeline]] (TETCo), a major natural gas pipeline transporting gas from the [[Gulf of Mexico]] coast in [[Texas]] to the [[New York City]] area; TETCo was one of the largest pipeline systems in the United States.<ref name="ferc">[http://www.ferc.gov/industries/gas/gen-info/pipecode.asp FERC pipeline codes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120011541/http://ferc.gov/industries/gas/gen-info/pipecode.asp |date=2013-01-20 }}</ref> Spectra also operated [[Spectra Energy#Current oil pipelines|three oil pipelines]], [[Spectra Energy#Current natural gas pipelines|numerous other gas pipelines]] and was proposing to build still [[Spectra Energy#Proposed natural gas pipelines|3 more gas pipelines]] in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.spectraenergy.com/Operations/Spectra-Energy-Liquids/|title= Spectra Energy Liquids|last1= Spectra Energy|date= 2015|website= Spectra Energy|access-date= 26 August 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150822083708/http://www.spectraenergy.com/Operations/Spectra-Energy-Liquids/|archive-date= 22 August 2015|url-status= dead|df= dmy-all}}</ref> The merger was completed on February 27, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=Enbridge and Spectra Energy Complete Merger|url=http://www.enbridge.com/media-center/news/details?id=2126823&lang=en&year=2017|website=Media Centre News Releases|publisher=Enbridge|access-date=October 10, 2017|date=February 27, 2017}}</ref>
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