Tennessee Gas Pipeline has filed an application at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking to boost the compression capacity along its 300 Line to meet the growing demand for interstate natural gas transportation service in the northeastern United States and Canada.

The Rose Lake Expansion Project calls for the addition of 12,630 hp at the pipeline’s Compressor Station 315 near Wellsboro in Tioga County, PA; the addition of approximately 3,661 hp and the replacement of approximately 9,000 hp at the Wyalusing Compressor Station 319 in Bradford County, PA; and the upgrade of an existing compressor and installation of other facilities at Tennessee’s Troy Compressor Station 317, also located in Bradford County.

The project would provide about 230,000 Dth/d of additional firm transportation capacity along the 300 Line for Marcellus Shale producers in northeastern Pennsylvania to meet the demands of both power generators and local distribution companies throughout Pennsylvania, and in surrounding states and Canada. Tennessee’s 300 mainline traverses northern Pennsylvania and continues into New Jersey, New York and New England.

Tennessee, a pipeline subsidiary of Houston-based Kinder Morgan, held a binding open season in August for firm capacity on the expansion project, which will provide incremental firm capacity from its Zone 4 receipt points between Stations 321 and 313 to delivery points at its existing interconnection with National Fuel Gas Supply at Rose Lake and the Zone 4 Station 219 Pool.

Tennessee said it expects the expansion capacity to be in service on Nov. 1, 2014.