Columbia Gulf Transmission announced it has filed a request withFERC for authorization to expand its mainline by 100,000 Dth/d toaccommodate requests of 19 shippers, 14 of which will be new to thesystem. An open season late last year for Columbia’s Mainline ’99expansion yielded requests for 315,000 Dth/d of firmtransportation, most of which will be provided with existing systemcapacity. About 12,000 Dth/d that was turned back by existingshippers also will be used to serve the new requests.

Columbia Gulf President Terrance L. McGill said 63% of thecapacity was awarded to marketers, 27% was awarded to localdistributors and 10% went to industrial customers.

Columbia said it plans to expand the 2,400-mile system through atwo-phase installation. About 35,000 hp of compression will beadded in 1999 and 15,000 hp in 2000 at existing compressor stationslocated at Inverness and Corinth, MS, and at Hampshire, TN.

Columbia Gulf’s mainline system stretches from Rayne, in SouthCentral Louisiana to the Kentucky-West Virginia border, south ofAshland, KY. It connects Gulf Coast supplies to markets in theSouth, as well as the Midwest, East and Northeast areas of theUnited States.

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