New assets fuel their cash flow

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PEMBINA PIPELINE $42.15 (Toronto symbol PPL; Shares o/s: 394.9 million; Market cap: $16.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Divd. yield: 4.1%; www.pembina.com) owns pipelines that carry almost all of B.C.’s oil and half of Alberta’s conventional oil. Its network also carries 30% of Western Canada’s natural gas liquids (NGLs). Pembina owns extensive facilities to extract, process and store NGLs; it also operates natural gas processing plants. In the three months ended September 30, 2016, the company’s cash flow per share rose 6.7%, to $0.64 from $0.60. In 2017, Pembina plans to spend $1.9 billion to complete about $4 billion in growth projects. The company already spent $2.1 billion on those projects in 2016. Most of them will come into service, and begin to add to Pembina’s cash flow, by the second half of this year. The company also brought an additional $1.3 billion of projects into service in 2016. They include an expansion of its Horizon pipeline as well as new gas-processing facilities to prepare…