FERC OKs Part of Gulf XPress Pipeline for Service
2/13/2019
(Reuters) - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved a request by TransCanada Corp's Columbia unit to put part of the company's $600 million Gulf XPress natural gas pipeline into service in Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee.
source: TransCanada
Gulf XPress is one of several pipelines designed to connect growing output in the Marcellus and Utica shale basins in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio with customers in the U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coast
The 880-Mcfd Gulf XPress project includes construction of seven new compressor stations in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.
New pipelines built to remove gas from the Marcellus and Utica have enabled shale drillers to boost output in Appalachia to a record high of 31.6 bcfd in February versus 26.9 bcfd in the same month a year ago.
That represents about 38 percent of the nation's total dry gas output of 83.3 bcfd in 2018. A decade ago, Appalachia was responsible just 1.6 bcfd, or 3 percent, of the country's total production in 2008.
Separately, TransCanada has said it plans to complete its $3 billion Mountaineer in 2019.
Mountaineer is designed to increase gas capacity in West Virginia by 2-bcfd.
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