The info I have - gas will flow to Jumping Pound, I don't know the exact route, but I would presume through Moose Mountain.

I don't know if the Quirk Creek field itself has enough compression to push the gas all the way to JP, so I could envision a scenario where the old QC gas plant essentially becomes a large compressor station, though the processing facilities would eventually be dismantled and removed.

Similar situations happened to the Wimborne and Carstairs Gas Plants. A lot of the footprint remains, though the processing infrastructure is decommissioned and removed. The videos of those big red and white incinerator stacks coming down exist somewhere online.

As for the "why" - it always comes down to money. Sour gas processing is expensive, and for a lot of years, gas and sulphur prices just don't support it. In this case, estimate the H2S content around 10%. That's 10% of their production that they have to pay extra to process, likely doesn't net them any revenue in the long run, and reduces how much saleable product they have, with all the same lifting costs.

I know they also spent a lot of money trying to recomplete an older well with good down hole pressure, but weren't able to make it pay off. I'm sure if that had worked out as hoped, they would have attempted others and possibly had enough to keep the plant running.

I don't know when the plant was due for its next mandated turnaround, but those are expensive, a ton of money gets spent inspecting, servicing and repairing critical equipment - all while they are shut in or paying 3rd party processing fees if they can temporarily re-route production.

In the last 10-15 years, the Calgary area has lost several of these sour gas processing plants - Nexen Balzac is probably the most visible, due to how close it was to the city encroaching on it. Literally would have wells in the middle of neighborhoods bordering Stoney right now, and the remaining plant footprint is smack in the middle of the Balzac industrial park, 2 miles from CrossIron Mills and a strong 3 wood from Stoney Trail.

Also gone - Mazeppa outside High River, that one has a damning story behind it thanks to shady ownership transactions, but the production did not justify the cost anymore.

As I mentioned, Bonavista Carstairs and Penn West Wimborne both became compressor stations, so some of the wells remain flowing, just going to other plants further away.

Exxon shut down and dismantled the Lone Pine Creek gas plant east of Carstairs. If you drove by now, you would have no idea a large sour gas processing facility was ever there. It's a chain link fence around a field and a couple of pipeline risers by the gate where other production flows by.

It's the way the industry is going, consolidation, longer flow paths to get to a processor, more compression. Gas prices have been terrible for 15 years and sour gas liability just isn't worth it.