By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Sept. 26 -- Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP has started a binding open season for a proposed 137-mile interstate gas pipeline from the 2.6 bcfd Cheniere Energy Inc. Sabine Pass LNG terminal under construction in Cameron Parish, La., to pipeline interconnections in Evangeline Parish, La. (OGJ, Aug. 18, 2005, Newsletter).
The project would include 137 miles of large-diameter pipeline with firm capacity of about 2.1 MMbtu/day and 1 mile of pipeline with firm capacity of 1.3 MMbtu/day connecting to the system of Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America, a Kinder Morgan subsidiary.
Kinder Morgan has obtained conditional agreements from shippers for the 3.4 MMbtu/day of initial project capacity.
The pipeline could be in service as early as first quarter 2009.