Midcoast to build CJ Express Haynesville gas pipeline

The East Texas operating subsidiary of Midcoast Energy LLC, a portfolio company of ArcLight Capital Partners, has made a positive final investment decision and entered into definitive, long-term anchor shipper agreements in support of its 150-mile, 36-in. OD CJ Express Expansion project. CJ Express will add compression and pipeline to Midcoast's existing East Texas pipeline system. 

Expansion will increase gathering capabilities in the Shelby trough area of the Haynesville shale and increase Midcoast's Clarity pipeline capacity to Gulf Coast demand centers to about 1 bcfd. 

CJ Express will begin in San Augustine County, Tex., and run south to an interconnect with Clarity in Hardin County, Tex.

Midcoast expects CJ Express to be completed in early 2021.