PGT-PG&E PROJECT ADVANCES

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has issued a permit for construction of the California facilities required to support the Pacific Gas Transmission Co.-Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pipeline expansion program. The project is designed to move an added 755 MMcfd of Canadian gas into California and 148 MMcfd to the Pacific Northwest.

Jan. 7, 1991

The project is designed to move an added 755 MMcfd of Canadian gas into California and 148 MMcfd to the Pacific Northwest.

In the past 2 months the project has let contracts for turbines, compressors, and mainline pipe. The order for 400,000 tons of mainline pipe, carrying a price tag of about $400 million, is the world's largest since the early 1980s (OGJ, Dec. 31, 1990,p. 24).

The expansion project, first proposed 2 years ago by PGT-PG&E, is to be complete by late 1993. It will involve laying 42 in. and 36 in. loops from the British Columbia-idaho border through Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California.

The expansion's largest customers include Southern California Edison Co., 200 MMcfd, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co., 100 MMcfd.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said at its Dec. 12 meeting it will issue an order soon concerning the nonenvironmental aspects of the Idaho, Washington, and Oregon segments.