Takeaway

Energy Transfer Partners LP has completed the 160-mile Texas Independence Pipeline, which increases the partnership’s takeaway capacity in Texas by an incremental 1.1 Bcf/d, it said Monday. The partnership also said it has completed the Rulison expansion project in Colorado.

Midcontinent Express Pipeline (MEP) has filed an application at FERC for a 300,000 MMcf/d expansion of its mammoth pipeline project that would provide takeaway capacity for shale producers in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

FERC Thursday issued El Paso’s Wyoming Interstate Co. Ltd. (WIC) pipeline a certificate for a compression expansion that will add nearly 230,000 Dth/d of takeaway capacity on its Piceance Lateral.

Kern River Gas Transmission Monday was awarded a favorable environmental assessment (EA) for a proposed expansion to increase takeaway capacity for Rocky Mountain producers.

FERC last Wednesday approved an expansion of Dominion Transmission Inc.’s pipeline system that will provide takeaway capacity to eastern markets for the Rockies natural gas delivered by Rockies Express Pipeline (REX).

FERC Wednesday approved an expansion of Dominion Transmission Inc.’s pipeline system that will provide takeaway capacity to eastern markets for the Rockies natural gas delivered by Rockies Express Pipeline (REX).

In the race to build new takeaway natural gas pipeline infrastructure out of the Rockies, the proposed Pathfinder Pipeline project received a boost last week as TransCanada Corp., affiliates of Enterprise Products Partners LP and Quicksilver Gas Services LP signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which Enterprise and Quicksilver Gas Services would acquire up to an aggregate 50% ownership in the project and commit to ship a total of 500 MMcf/d for a 10-year term.

In the race to build new takeaway natural gas pipeline infrastructure out of the Rockies, the proposed Pathfinder Pipeline project received a boost Monday as TransCanada Corp., affiliates of Enterprise Products Partners LP and Quicksilver Gas Services LP signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which Enterprise and Quicksilver Gas Services would acquire up to an aggregate 50% ownership in the project and commit to ship a total of 500 MMcf/d for a 10-year term.

FERC last Thursday approved a major interstate natural gas pipeline project that would provide additional takeaway capacity for producers in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas basins, as well as a salt dome storage facility proposed for Southeast Texas.