Energy Transfer Partners LP’s (ETP) Southeast Bossier 42-inch diameter gas pipeline project in East Texas is now complete and ready to serve producers in the gas-rich Barnett Shale, the company said. The $468 million project consists of more than 150 miles of pipeline from Farrar, TX, to Silsbee, TX.

Southeast Bossier connects ETP’s East Texas and Cleburne to Carthage pipelines with its Texoma Pipeline north of Beaumont, TX. The pipe is to serve producers in the Barnett Shale and Bossier Sand plays of Central and East Texas with up to 900,000 Mcf/d of initial capacity and will bring ETP’s capacity from these producing basins to more than 4 Bcf/d.

“The Southeast Bossier Pipeline solidifies Energy Transfer’s position as the largest transporter of natural gas from the Barnett Shale and the Lower Bossier Sands,” said Mike Howard, ETP COO for midstream operations.

In addition to completing Southeast Bossier Pipeline, ETP has several other projects under construction that are expected to be in service throughout the remainder of 2008 and into 2009. One year ago ETP completed the final phase of its 42-inch diameter pipeline project to connect its 36-inch North Texas Pipeline, its Barnett Shale pipeline system and its Bethel Storage Facility to the Carthage Hub and other intrastate and interstate pipelines (see Daily GPI, April 2, 2007). At the time it said the Southeast Bossier project was to be completed in the first quarter of 2008.

ETP has pipeline operations in Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico and Utah, and owns the largest intrastate pipeline system in Texas.

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