MoGas launches open season for natural gas line in Missouri and Illinois

MoGas Pipeline LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust Inc., has launched a non-binding open season to solicit interest in firm transportation capacity on its interstate natural gas pipeline in Missouri and Illinois.

“We are conducting this open season to solicit shipper interest for firm transportation service to the MoGas MRT interconnect in the east, as well as delivery points in the western portion of our system. Through our receipt points, MoGas shippers have access to natural gas produced in the Rocky Mountain, Marcellus, Arkoma and Gulf Coast regions,” said Rick Kreul, President of MoGas Pipeline LLC. “Depending on interest, MoGas may install a parallel pipeline, or ‘looping,’ in the northwestern part of our system to provide up to 75,000 dekatherms per day of additional capacity from the REX and PEPL interconnections. We are also open to discussions on further expansions of capacity at similar rates if shippers show interest.”

Capacity on the natural gas pipeline system currently is 125,000 dekatherms/day. The expansion could be operational in the fourth quarter of 2020 based on the timing of permitting and construction activities, MoGas said.

MoGas owns a 263-mi FERC-regulated interstate natural gas pipeline system serving the St. Louis area and central Missouri, which delivers natural gas to both investor-owned and municipal local distribution systems. MoGas has pipeline receipt and delivery interconnects with Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX), Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. LP (PEPL), and Enable Mississippi River Transmission LLC (MRT).

The non-binding open season runs through Dec. 13.