Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America (NGPL) has started an incentive program for producers to connect gas production to its Arkoma basin line by yearend.
Recently completed facilities increased the line's capacity, and NGPL said it now is authorized to offer transportation services from the basin to a larger group of shippers.
NGPL will waive connection charges on its Arkoma line for producers who sign a facilities agreement by Dec. 31 and commit to maintaining agreed volumes for 2 years. The offer is similar to the pipeline's "Hook 'em up" program, which offers producers expeditious connection of their production to NGPL's interstate system.
The waiver, for meters as large as 6", is limited to the Arkoma line.
EXPANDED CAPACITY
NGPL recently completed compressor facilities in Oklahoma and pipeline looping in East Texas to ship an added 100 MMcfd from the Arkoma basin under firm and interruptible arrangements. NGPL delivers natural gas directly to markets in the Upper Midwest and to other pipelines serving the East and West coasts.
Included in the new transmission facilities is a 4,000 hp compressor station in Atoka County, Okla., to move gas on the Arkoma line, which runs from Latimer County to Bryan County. There it meets NGPL's A/G line, which connects the company's two main line transmission systems in southern Oklahoma and Northeast Texas.
NGPL also completed 8 miles of 30 in. loop on the A/G line in Lamar County, Tex.
Together, the new facilities enable NGPL to move about 200 MMcfd on the Arkoma line and 500 MMcf/d on the Texas segment of the A/G line.
NGPL will complete a 16,500 hp compressor station in Lamar County next spring, boosting capacity to 650 MMcfd on that segment of the A/G line and to about 300 MMcfd on the Arkoma line.
NGPL said it now can transport Arkoma gas for all types of customers, under a Natural Gas Act Section 7(c) certificate issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission early in October. Previously, the company's Arkoma basin deliveries were limited to gas transportation on behalf of local distribution companies and intrastate pipelines.
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