FERC approves El Paso's Cypress gas line

June 28, 2006
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the 176-mile Cypress natural gas pipeline expansion in Georgia and Florida planned by Southern Natural Gas Co. (SNG), a unit of El Paso Corp., Houston.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 28 -- The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the 176-mile Cypress natural gas pipeline expansion in Georgia and Florida planned by Southern Natural Gas Co. (SNG), a unit of El Paso Corp., Houston.

The pipeline will deliver gas from El Paso's Elba Island LNG terminal near Savannah, Ga., to Jacksonville, Fla., as well as to the US Southeast. SNG expects to have the line in service by mid-2007.

The project is part of $1.1 billion El Paso has dedicated over the next 5 years to bring additional sources of gas to the Southeast. Projects to be completed by 2010 include adding 8.4 bcf of LNG storage to the terminal's 15.7 bcf of storage capacity, increasing send-out capacity by 900 MMcfd to 2.1 bcfd, and laying the Elba Express pipeline (OGJ Online, Dec. 21, 2005).

The 191-mile, 1.1 bcfd Elba Express—105 miles of 42-in. line and 86 miles of 36-in. line—will carry gas northwest from the terminal (OGJ, Feb. 13, 2006, Newsletter).