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Producers in the booming Bakken Shale are getting their wish for more infrastructure with the announcement Friday that a unit of Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA) will construct a cryogenic gas processing plant to serve them. Separately, Alliance Pipeline has filed for a FERC certificate for its previously announced Tioga Lateral project.

Williams and Dominion are partnering to develop the Keystone Connector pipeline, designed to carry up to 1 Bcf/d from the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) terminus in Ohio to eastern and Mid-Atlantic markets. Under the proposal, the sponsors want to place the 240-mile pipeline into service by 2013. The proposed pipeline would extend from Clarington, OH, to Williams’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line (Transco) Station 195 in southeastern Pennsylvania. Williams and Dominion would work with potential shippers to determine the level of interest in the proposal. Williams, through its Rockies Connector project, and Dominion, through its original Keystone project, said they had worked independently over the past two years on various proposals to the Northeast markets with Rockies and growing Marcellus Shale gas supplies. After holding open seasons in 2007, Williams last year decided to combine its Rockies Connector and Northeast Connector projects into the Northeast Supply Project to move gas from Clarington to various delivery points in Transco’s Zone 6 (see NGI, May 12, 2008). Meanwhile, an open season for Dominion’s original Keystone pipeline was launched last year to transport up to 1 Bcf/d from southwestern Pennsylvania, the heart of the Marcellus Shale, to East Coast markets (see NGI, July 7, 2008). The pipeline was to carry gas to Chester County, PA, for delivery to eastern markets through pipes operated by Dominion, Spectra, Williams and NiSource. For information contact Transco’s Jim Moore at (713) 215-3081 or Dominion’s Jeff Keister at (804) 771-4459.

Williams and Dominion are joining forces to develop the Keystone Connector pipeline, designed to carry up to 1 Bcf/d from the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) terminus in Ohio to eastern and Mid-Atlantic markets. Under the proposal announced last week, the sponsors want to place the 240-mile pipeline into service by 2013.

Williams and Dominion are joining forces to develop the Keystone Connector pipeline, which would carry up to 1 Bcf/d from the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) terminus in Ohio to eastern and Mid-Atlantic markets. Under the proposal announced Monday, the sponsors want to place the 240-mile pipeline into service by 2013.

The Ohio terminus of the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) got even more popular last week as a jumping-off point to eastern markets for Rockies gas with the announcement of two more projects.

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. reported Monday that itsoperating subsidiary has acquired ownership interests in five naturalgas pipeline systems and related assets in the central Gulf of Mexicofrom El Paso Energy Partners, L.P. for $112 million in cash. The ElPaso unit was forced to sell the assets as part of the Federal TradeCommission’s approval of the El Paso Energy/Coastal Corp. merger,which was completed Monday as well (see Daily GPI, Jan. 30).

Coastal’s Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG) is holding an openseason for a new interstate pipeline between its existing westernterminus in Uintah County, UT, and an interconnection with thePaiute Pipeline Co. system near Elko, NV. The pipe could becompetition to a project announced in January by Williams’Northwest Pipeline and Paiute.