With the expectation of continued growth in LNG imports to the US have come a number of pipeline projects to move regasified material from the terminal to centers of consumption. Brief summaries of some these projects appear below.
- Elba Express. El Paso Corp. subsidiaries will expand the Elba Island LNG receiving terminal near Savannah, Ga., and lay the related Elba Express pipeline. The projects, costing $850 million, will start service in 2010. El Paso unit Southern Natural Gas Co. will construct, own, and operate the 191-mile, 1.1-bcfd interstate pipeline. The new line, carrying gas northwest from the terminal, will consist of 105 miles of 42-in. pipeline and 86 miles of 36-in. pipeline.
- Jordan Cove. An equal partnership of Fort Chicago Energy Partners LP of Calgary, Northwest Pipeline Corp., and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. plans to build a 250-mile pipeline from the Jordon Cove LNG receiving terminal and regasification plant being developed by Fort Chicago at Coos Bay, Ore.
The pipeline, scheduled for completion in 2010, would be able to deliver 1 bcfd of natural gas to the Pacific Northwest and beyond, including California and northern Nevada through existing systems.
- Kinder Morgan Louisiana Pipeline. This pipeline will provide about 3.2 bcfd of take-away capacity from the Cheniere Sabine Pass LNG terminal under construction in Cameron Parish, La. KM will invest about $500 million to build this pipeline to Evangeline Parish, La.
The pipeline will consist of two segments: a 137-mile large-diameter pipeline with firm capacity of about 2 bcfd that will connect to various interstate and intrastate pipelines within Louisiana, and a 1-mile pipeline with firm capacity of about 1.2 bcfd that will connect to KM’s Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America’s pipeline. Pending regulatory approval, KM expects the NGPCA lateral to be in service by Oct. 1, 2008.
- Brunswick Pipeline. As much as 850 MMcfd of gas will flow from the Canaport LNG terminal near St. John’s, NB, via the proposed 145 km, 30-in. Brunswick Pipeline to a connection with the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline system at the US border near Baileyville, Me. Construction is scheduled to begin this year and be completed by late 2008.
- Cameron Interstate Pipeline. This proposed 36-mile interstate pipeline will interconnect the Cameron LNG receipt terminal being developed in Cameron, La., by Sempra LNG on the Calcasieu Channel in Cameron Parish, La., to seven intrastate and interstate pipelines that transport natural gas to major market areas in the Midwest and Northeast. Cameron Interstate Pipeline will have a capacity of 1.5 bcfd of natural gas and is planned to go into service in 2008.
- Cove Point LNG. Dominion Cove Point LNG LP proposed to construct and operate about 47 miles of 36-in. loop pipeline in Calvert, Prince George’s, and Charles County, Md., as part of its terminal expansion to allow it to deliver an additional 800 MMcfd from the terminal to its connections with other interstate pipelines. Dominion also proposed construction of about 81 miles of 24-in. pipeline lateral in central Pennsylvania and 33 miles of pipe in other parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia as part of the expansion. Dominion expects the expanded capacity to be in service by 2008.
- Energía Costa Azul. Sempra LNG will build a 45 mile, 42-in. spur line and an additional 10 miles of 24-in. line as part of its Energía Costa Azul LNG project on the northern Baja peninsula in Mexico. The 42-in work is to be completed by Aug. 15, 2007, and the 24-in. work by Dec. 14, 2007.
