Iroquois Gas Transmission System LP is holding a nonbinding open season through Jan. 29 for its NYMarc project, which would connect expanding Marcellus Shale gas supplies to New York, New England and eastern Canadian gas markets, the company said Tuesday.

The Iroquois announcement comes one day after Spectra Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission LP announced that Range Resources would be the anchor shipper on an expansion of its system to deliver Marcellus gas to the Northeast (see related story; Daily GPI, Nov. 17).

The NYMarc project would interconnect with both Tennessee Gas Pipeline in Sussex County, NJ, and Millennium Pipeline in Orange County, NY, and follow a northeasterly route of about 66 miles before tying into Iroquois’ mainline in Pleasant Valley, NY. The project would provide producers in the Marcellus Shale access to Iroquois’ existing marketplace and the opportunity to supply more than 1 Bcf/d of Northeast market demand, Iroquois said. NYMarc would also give Marcellus producers the opportunity to supply markets in Eastern Canada as well as New York City through Iroquois’ existing system.

“As development of the Marcellus Shale continues, one of the pivotal issues facing producers will be optimization of capital investment in transportation infrastructure out of the basin so as to create the greatest value for the gas that they are producing,” said Scott Rupff, Iroquois vice president of marketing, development and commercial operations. “Iroquois’ NYMarc project will provide producers with access to one of the highest-priced markets in North America while benefiting Iroquois’ existing customer base by augmenting their current access to the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and Dawn, ON, Hub.”

NYMarc is targeted for service as early as Nov. 1, 2014.

Information on NYMarc and the open season is at www.iroquois.com.

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