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Guardian Pipeline has hired H.C. Price Co. to build its 142-mile, 750 MMcf/d pipeline system in Illinois and Wisconsin. H.C. Price, of Dallas, was selected in a competitive bidding process and will construct the pipeline in one spread, in which work will be done by a single construction crew over the entire length of the project. Murphy Bros. Inc., of Moline, IL, was selected to build Guardian’s 22,225-hp compressor station near Joliet. “This signing of the project’s main construction contractors keeps Guardian on track to meet its scheduled in-service date this November,” said George Hass, Guardian project manager. Land acquisition work is continuing in both Wisconsin and Illinois. Construction is expected to begin on the compressor station in March and on the pipeline June 1, with completion and operation of the pipeline expected by November. Guardian will transport gas from interconnections with Alliance, Northern Border, Midwestern Gas Transmission and Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America at the Chicago hub near Joliet to northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin markets. The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin has approved a lateral pipeline connecting Guardian with the Wisconsin Gas system. Currently Guardian Pipeline has firm precedent agreements with Wisconsin Gas and others to transport 662 MMcf/d (88% of design capacity) when the pipeline goes into service in November. Guardian is a partnership of CMS Energy, Wisconsin Gas parent company WICOR, and Viking Gas Transmission, a wholly owned subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc.

Guardian Pipeline has hired H.C. Price Co. to build its 142-mile, 750 MMcf/d pipeline system in Illinois and Wisconsin. H.C. Price, of Dallas, was selected in a competitive bidding process and will construct the pipeline in one spread, in which work will be done by a single construction crew over the entire length of the project. Murphy Bros. Inc., of Moline, IL, was selected to build Guardian’s 22,225-hp compressor station near Joliet.

SCANA Corp. subsidiary SCG Pipeline Inc. filed an application with FERC to build an 18-mile gas pipeline in Georgia and South Carolina that would connect Southern LNG’s Elba Island liquefied natural gas import terminal near Savannah, GA, to a proposed power plant that would be built by SCANA subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a preliminary determination on non-environmental issues to the Islander East Pipeline Co. LLC to build a 40-mile pipeline that will bring natural gas from Connecticut to Long Island, NY.

Williams Gas Pipeline has filed an application for a new $365 million pipeline that would extend from the Cheyenne hub in northern Colorado to multiple pipeline interconnections in southwestern Kansas and the panhandle of Oklahoma. The Western Frontier Pipeline would consist of 400 miles of 30-inch diameter pipe and 30,000 horsepower of compression. It would transport up to 540,000 Dth/d of gas to markets in the Midcontinent.

AES Corp. has begun an open season for capacity on a 76-mile pipeline that it plans to build from a small island in the Bahamas, which it purchased in July, to southern Florida to meet the expanding demand for natural gas by power generators and distributors in the Sunshine State and elsewhere in the Southeast.

AES Corp. has begun an open season for capacity on a 76-mile pipeline that it plans to build from a small island in the Bahamas, which it purchased in July, to southern Florida to meet the expanding demand for natural gas from power generators and distributors in the Sunshine State and elsewhere in the Southeast.

Falcon Gas Storage Co. and its subsidiary, Hill-Lake Gas Storage LP, reported that the right-of-way acquisition has been completed for the construction of a new 17-mile, 20-inch diameter natural gas pipeline that would connect Falcon’s Hill-Lake gas storage facility with both Lone Star Pipeline Co.’s Line “X” and the El Paso/TXU Fuels North Texas Pipeline in Eastland County near Dallas/Fort. Worth.

Falcon Gas Storage Co. and its subsidiary, Hill-Lake Gas Storage LP, reported that the right-of-way acquisition has been completed for the construction of a new 17-mile, 20-inch diameter natural gas pipeline that would connect Falcon’s Hill-Lake gas storage facility with both Lone Star Pipeline Co.’s Line “X” and the El Paso/TXU Fuels North Texas Pipeline in Eastland County near Dallas/Ft. Worth.