Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) has completed its Southern Shale and Cleburne-to-Tolar pipelines, providing 1.1 Bcf/d of capacity from the Barnett Shale of North Texas and boosting its capacity out of the shale to 4.6 Bcf/d, the company said Thursday.

The 36-inch diameter Southern Shale pipeline originates in southern Tarrant County, TX, running 31 miles to ETP’s Maypearl compressor station near Maypearl, TX, where gas is delivered to ETP’s pipeline infrastructure. The 36-inch diameter Cleburne-to-Tolar pipeline originates in the western region of the Barnett Shale and connects to ETP’s Cleburne compressor station, which interconnects to ETP’s 42-inch diameter Cleburne-to-Carthage and 36-inch diameter North Texas pipelines.

In the last year ETP has added more than 400 miles of 36-inch and 42-inch diameter pipeline and 4 Bcf/d of takeaway capacity, the company said.

In September ETP said it had completed two gas projects that added 875 MMcf/d of capacity to its transmission systems — the 42-inch diameter Carthage Loop pipeline in Texas and the 36-inch diameter San Juan Loop pipeline in New Mexico (see Daily GPI, Sept 10). In August ETP completed two other projects — the 135-mile, 36-inch diameter Paris Loop pipeline and 25-mile, 36-inch diameter Maypearl-to-Malone pipeline — which raised its transportation capacity out of the Barnett Shale to more than 3.5 Bcf/d (see Daily GPI, Aug. 6).

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