American Midstream Midla LLC (Midla), a subsidiary of American Midstream Partners LP (AMP), agreed with its customers that Midla may retire an existing 1920s-era pipeline and replace its existing natural gas service with a 12-in. OD line from Winnsboro, La., to Natchez, Miss.
The Natchez Line will serve existing residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Midla said customers not served by the new Natchez Line will be connected to other interstate or intrastate pipelines, other gas distribution systems, or offered conversion to propane service.
Pending regulatory approvals Midla estimates Natchez startup for late in 2015. The company expects filing a formal settlement with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission within the next 30 days.
Midla requested FERC permission to abandon the old line earlier this year, saying it had leaked for decades at that leakage rates were increasing, that cultivation and erosion had diminished pipeline burial depths, and that floods had destroyed six of eight Mississippi River crossings (OGJ Online, Apr. 3, 2014).
Midla’s total system includes about 370 miles of pipeline primarily linking the Monroe gas field in northern Louisiana and interconnections with the Transco Pipeline system and Gulf South Pipeline system to customers near Baton Rouge, La.
AMP in August expanded its midstream assets in the Eagle Ford shale (OGJ Online, Aug. 8, 2014).
