By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 6 -- El Paso Corp. has proposed a connection between its natural gas pipelines in the US West with its systems in the South and East.
The project, called Continental Connector, would involve more than 1,000 miles of new pipeline of up to 42 in. in diameter. It would link El Paso's Colorado Interstate, Wyoming Interstate Co., and Cheyenne Plains pipelines to points on the company's ANR Pipeline, Tennessee Gas Pipeline, and Southern Natural Gas systems. It would be able to tap gas supplies in North and East Texas.
The new pipeline is expected to have a capacity of 1-2 bcfd. It could be placed in service as early as November 2008, El Paso said.
The company is holding a nonbinding open season to gauge shipper interest. The open season, which started Oct. 4, will run through Nov. 4.
This is the second recent proposal to build a pipeline to connect Rocky Mountain gas supplies with the US Midwest and East. Earlier this year, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP and Sempra Pipelines & Storage, a unit of Sempra Energy, San Diego, proposed a $3 billion, 1,500 mile gas line that would originate at the Wamsutter Hub in Wyoming and extend to eastern Ohio (OGJ Online, Aug. 17, 2005).
