By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, May 22-- Iroquois Pipeline Operating Co. (IPOC), Shelton, Conn., has awarded a contract to Horizon Offshore Inc., Houston, to construct and test the offshore portion of Iroquois's Eastchester pipeline extension project. The offshore section consists of 35 miles of 24-in. line extending from landfall at Northport, Long Island, through the Long Island Sound and into the East River to a termination point in the South Bronx in New York City.
Horizon is developing construction procedures and preparing equipment for mobilization in September. The offshore project is scheduled for completion by April 2003.
IPOC, which operates the system, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Iroquois Gas Transmission System LP, a partnership of 10 US and Canadian energy companies. Iroquois owns a 377 mile interstate natural gas pipeline extending from the US-Canadian border at Waddington, NY, through western Connecticut to Long Island, NY.
Iroquois said the $170 million Eastchester expansion, which will supply 230 MMcfd of gas from Western Canada to the Consolidated Edison Co. gas grid, will be the first new interstate pipeline built into New York City in about 40 years. It will serve power generation and other needs in the area (OGJ Online, Apr. 30, 2000).
Iroquois expects to begin construction on the New York state facilities this quarter, with the whole Eastchester expansion to be placed into service in winter-spring 2002-03.
PEMEX work
Horizon Offshore also will begin work in late second quarter on a contract received last month from Petroleos Mexicanos for rehabilitation of pipelines in Cantarell field in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico.
Horizon will repair riser expansion curves, pig and test the repaired segments and related existing facilities, install topside spools and valves, perform line stabilizations, repair pipeline crossings, recover out-of-service lines, and trench the repaired segments and existing pipeline installations.
The Atlantic Horizon derrick barge, Gulf Horizon lay barge, and Pearl Horizon diving support vessel will be utilized on the project. Construction is scheduled to begin in late second quarter.
