Diameter

The initial phase of the 330-mile Entrega gas pipeline project was given the green light to begin service by FERC on Wednesday. Phase I is a 136-mile, 36-inch diameter pipeline extending from the Meeker Hub in Rio Blanco County, CO, through Moffat County, CO, to Wamsutter in Sweetwater County, WY. The line will add 750 MMcf/d of firm capacity to the region, significantly boosting gas deliveries out of the Piceance Basin. Service is expected to begin next month.

Gulf South made another change in the pigging schedule for its 12-inch diameter Index 131 from Lafayette to Weeks Island in South Louisiana (see Daily GPI, Jan. 23). The work, which began Jan. 18, has been extended through Friday of this week and will resume for one day next Tuesday.

There were no injuries or fire when a rupture occurred early Thursday morning on Tennessee’s 30-inch diameter line near the town of Halfway in Allen County, KY, about 70 miles north of Nashville, TN. Up to 200 residents in the area were evacuated temporarily but had returned to their homes shortly after daybreak Thursday, a pipeline spokesman said. The affected section was closed off quickly, and no services were interrupted, he added.

Williams’ Northwest Pipeline is holding an open season to test market interest in a new 38-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline lateral that would tap production in the Piceance Basin in western Colorado. The lateral would provide up to 575,000 Dth/d of new firm transportation capacity for gas production in the Parachute, CO, area.

Point Comfort Pipeline Co. LP. has filed with FERC for a 27-mile, 36-inch diameter pipeline to connect the proposed Calhoun LNG receiving terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast with inter- and intrastate pipelines in South Texas (CP05-380). An affiliate, Calhoun LNG LP., a wholly owned subsidiary of Houston-based Gulf Coast LNG Partners LP. originally filed plans for the LNG import terminal last March (CP05-91).

TransCanada Corp. said Friday that it won a bid to build a 170 MMcf/d natural gas pipeline system in east-central Mexico. The 36-inch diameter, 78-mile Tamazunchale Pipeline will extend from the facilities of Pemex Gas near Naranjos, Veracruz and transport gas under a 26-year contract with Mexico’s Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) to a power plant near Tamazunchale, San Luis Potosi.

FERC has given Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America (NGPL) the go-ahead to acquire and operate the 39-mile, 30-inch diameter Black Marlin pipeline system that crosses the Texas-Oklahoma border, and to construct minor facilities to tie the line to its system.

Northwest Pipeline said that a 111-mile portion of its idled 26-inch diameter line between Sumas and Washougal, WA, is back in service, providing an additional 131,000 Dth/d of much needed pipeline capacity along the I-5 corridor. The capacity increase will allow customers to transport more gas to markets in southern Washington, Oregon and California and to the Jackson Prairie storage field.

Northwest Pipeline said that a 111-mile portion of its idled 26-inch diameter line between Sumas and Washougal, WA, is back in service, providing an additional 131,000 Dth/d of much needed pipeline capacity along the I-5 corridor. The capacity increase will allow customers to transport more gas to markets in southern Washington, Oregon and California and to the Jackson Prairie storage field.