Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP said its Texas Gas Transmission LLC subsidiary has completed remediation of pipe anomalies on its Fayetteville and Greenville Laterals and has received authorization from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to operate them at standard operating pressures (0.72 of the Specified Minimum Yield Strength).

“The pipe anomalies have been remediated on all of Boardwalk’s expansion pipeline projects and all of these projects are now approved to operate at standard operating pressures,” said Boardwalk CEO Rolf Gafvert. He said the company is working with PHMSA to obtain authority to operate its projects at higher pressures.

The Fayetteville lateral consists of 165 miles of 36-inch diameter pipeline and originates in Conway County, AR, and proceeds to an interconnect with the Texas Gas mainline in Coahoma County, MS. The Greenville lateral consists of 95 miles of 36-inch diameter pipeline and originates at the Texas Gas mainline near Greenville, MS, and proceeds to Kosciusko, MS.

In July Boardwalk’s Gulf South Pipeline Co. LP completed remediation of anomalies on its East Texas and Southeast pipeline projects and received authorization to operate them at standard operating pressures (see Daily GPI, July 29). In June Boardwalk announced that it had remediated anomalies on its 356-mile Gulf Crossing Pipeline (see Daily GPI, July 1).

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