Construction will begin this month in southern Utah on the Wyoming-California pipeline project of Kern River Gas Transmission Co.
Associated Pipeline Contractors (APC), Houston, and H.B. Zachry Co., San Antonio, will start work on spreads 5 and 6 of the eight spread project.
Kern River also let contracts to APC and four other companies to lay pipe in the six remaining spreads next year.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Comission early last month approved Kern River's contracts with gas shippers, As of late November, shippers had committed firm transmission volumes of more than 600 MMcfd on the 700 MMcfd capacity system. Remaining firm capacity is expected to be filled this month.
Pipe has been ordered for the 904 mile line. Deliveries to construction sites will coincide with start of construction.
Kern River expects to be moving gas from Southwest Wyoming to near Bakersfield, Calif., by Jan. 1, 1992. It is a joint venture between units of Tenneco Inc., Houston, and Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa.
PIPELINE SPREADS
APC will begin work on spread 5, which runs 81 miles between points in Beaver and Washington counties, Utah. Zachery's spread 6 is an 81 mile segment from Washington County to a point northwest of Las Vegas, Nev.
Kern River also awarded APC the construction contract on spread 2 of the project, a 61 mile segment between the Wyoming-Utah border and a point near Salt Lake City.
The contract to lay spread 1, a segment running 67 miles from Opal, Wyo., to a point near the Wyoming-Utah border, went to Hood Corp., Whittier, Calif.
Gregory & Cook, Houston, will lay spread 3, an 81 mile segment from Salt Lake City to a point in Juab County, south of Provo, Utah.
Sheehan Pipeline Construction Co., Tulsa, will lay spread 4, a 112 mile segment from Juab County to a point in Beaver County, Utah. Sheehan also won the contract to lay spread 7, which will run 92 miles from Las Vegas to near Goodsprings, Nev., at the California-Nevada border.
ARB Inc., Bakersfield, Calif., will lay spread 8, a 103 mile segment from the California line to Daggett, Calif., near Barstow, where Kern River will merge with Mojave Pipeline Co. for the final distance to its terminus in Kern County, Calif.
Mojave, a partnership of Enron Corp. and El Paso Natural Gas Co., received an optional expedited certificate from FERC for its California pipeline project last summer (OGJ, June 18, p. 30).
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