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Marcellus gas pipeline capacity seen rising 0.5 Bcf/d by month’s end; additional expansions expected this winter
From: US Energy Information Administration, September 19, 2013
Initial service could begin by the end of September for two projects that would increase natural gas takeaway capacity from the Marcellus Shale formation by a combined 0.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d).
These two projects are a 7.9 mile, 0.23 Bcf/d looping pipeline added to Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) (known as the MPP Project’s “313 Loop”) and a 2.5 mile, 0.22 Bcf/d pipeline connecting NiSource’s Columbia Gas Transmission (TCO) pipeline to a 1,329-megawatt gas-fired Dominion power plant (known as the Warren County Extension project). Notably, these would be the first of several projects increasing natural gas takeaway capacity from Marcellus planned for completion this winter.
On September 13, TGP applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to begin service this coming Monday, September 23 on the 313 Loop, as well as the MPP Project’s planned upgrades to an adjacent compressor station in northern Pennsylvania’s Potter County. Service under its firm transportation agreements, however, would not begin until the originally agreed-upon date of November 1. By that date, TGP also plans to complete upgrades to three compressor stations in northern Pennsylvania west of Potter County to allow for bidirectional flow of natural gas.
Columbia’s TCO requested FERC permission on September 6 to begin service on September 30 on the Warren County Extension pipeline in Northern Virginia. This project also includes upgrades to compressor stations along TCO’s line carrying Marcellus gas east from West Virginia as well as the replacement of TCO’s interconnect with Williams’s Transcontinental Gas Pipeline (Transco), near Rockville, Maryland, which carries gas through the mid-Atlantic and into New York City.
Additional Marcellus gas takeaway capacity expected to come into service this winter includes:
- Dominion Transmission (DTI) plans to:
- establish a 0.09 Bcf/d interconnect with TGP in northern Pennsylvania’s Tioga County (known as the Sabinesville to Morrisville project), and
- build new segments adjacent to an existing pipeline to carry an additional 0.26 Bcf/d of gas to interconnects with Transco in Leidy, Pennsylvania, as well as to Spectra’s Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline (TETCO), which carries gas into New York and New Jersey, in addition to other facility modifications (Tioga County Expansion project),
- TETCO plans to begin service on its 0.78 Bcf/d expansion to a portion of its pipeline running from Linden, New Jersey, to Manhattan, New York (NY-NJ Expansion project),
- Transco plans to complete work on 0.24 Bcf/d of expansions to its existing pipeline network, to move more gas from interconnects on its Leidy Line in Pennsylvania to delivery points in New Jersey and New York City (Northeast Supply Link Project), and
- TGP plans to build five looping lines and upgrade four compressor stations in order to add 0.62 Bcf/d of pipeline capacity from northern Pennsylvania to New Jersey (Northeast Upgrade Project).
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