Midcoast awards Siemens CJ Express expansion contract

Midcoast Energy LLC awarded Siemens Gas and Power a contract to supply two SGT-400 gas turbine compression packages for its 150-mile, 36-in. OD CJ Express pipeline expansion project in east Texas. WHC Energy Services, supported by Universal Pegasus International, will be the engineering, procurement, and contracting (EPC) provider for the pipeline expansion project.

Siemens Gas and Power will supply two SGT-400 mechanical-drive compression packages capable of producing a total of 39,000-hp for an expansion at an existing compression station. The SGT-400 gas turbines will be built at the company’s plant in Olean, NY. The first gas turbine compression trains will be shipped later in 2020 to support the planned early-2021 start of commercial operations by CJ Express.

Midcoast in February 2020 entered into definitive, long-term anchor shipper agreements in support of CJ Express, which adds compression and pipeline to Midcoast's existing East Texas pipeline system. The 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. (OGJ Online, Feb. 26, 2020).