Colorado Interstate Gas Co. has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to lay 223 miles of 20 in. pipeline from eastern Utah through Northwest Colorado to its main system in Southwest Wyoming.
The proposed $85 million pipeline will enable CIG to move 178 MMcfd of gas from fields in Utah and Colorado to its existing system in Wyoming and on to the Colorado Front Range area and other pipelines.
Connections will provide service to the Midwest and California.
The pipeline will serve southern Uintah County's sprawling Natural Buttes field, which produces mainly gas from tight Cretaceous Mesaverde and Eocene Wasatch sands.
Coastal Corp., CIG's parent, is a large producer in Natural Buttes field.
CIG's right-of-way, much of which follows existing pipeline rights-of-way, also passes near Dragon Trail, Piceance Creek, and other gas fields as it traverses Rio Blanco and Moffat counties, Colo.
Part of the gas production in these areas of the northern Piceance basin comes from the Black Diamond and Cameo coal groups and Mancos shale of Mesaverde.
Jon R. Whitney, CIG president and chief executive officer, said, "Producers in these areas will soon be able to market their natural gas in many areas currently unavailable to them and at competitive rates."
The proposed project will include two compressor stations with a total of 26,000 hp.
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