Enbridge announces open season on Midla pipeline

Nov. 7, 2008
Enbridge Energy Partners announced a nonbinding open season for additional firm capacity on its Enbridge Pipelines subsidiary's interstate natural gas pipeline system.

Christopher E. Smith
Pipeline Editor

HOUSTON, Nov. 7 -- Enbridge Energy Partners LP announced a nonbinding open season for additional firm capacity on its Enbridge Pipelines (Midla) LLC subsidiary's interstate natural gas pipeline system. Enbridge said the proposed expansion will allow Midla shippers improved access from the Perryville hub to the ANR Pipeline in Franklin Parish, La., the Transco Pipeline in West Feliciana Parish, and industrial facilities in the Baton Rouge area.

Each of the connections will receive an additional 25 MMcfd on the system by virtue of new compression. Enbridge anticipates project completion in third-quarter 2009.

The open season will begin Dec. 1 and end Feb. 28, 2009.

Imports from Northeast Texas into the Southeast US-Gulf Coast region via Carthage-to-Perryville shipment were up an average of 1.8 bcfd as of July compared with the same period in 2007, including a 1 bcfd gain on CenterPoint's CP Line and a 1.7 bcfd increase on Gulf South's East Texas-to-Mississippi expansion (OGJ, July 7, 2008, p. 74).

The Midla pipeline consists of 170 miles of 22-in. OD low-pressure pipeline running across Louisiana and Mississippi from Perryville to Baton Rouge.

Contact Christopher E. Smith at [email protected].