PIPELINES FILE TO TRANSPORT MORE U.S. GAS EAST

Units of three interstate pipelines have applied to build a combined $476 million in facilities to move more U.S. gas to the eastern and Northeast U.S. The companies, units of Consolidated Natural Gas Co., Transco Energy Co., and Coastal Corp., filed their plans with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Consolidated's CNG Transmission Corp. wants to provide an added 350 MMcfd of long term, firm transportation natural gas capacity beginning Nov. 1, 1991, on behalf of shippers on

Feb. 12, 1990

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Units of three interstate pipelines have applied to build a combined $476 million in facilities to move more U.S. gas to the eastern and Northeast U.S.

The companies, units of Consolidated Natural Gas Co., Transco Energy Co., and Coastal Corp., filed their plans with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Consolidated's CNG Transmission Corp. wants to provide an added 350 MMcfd of long term, firm transportation natural gas capacity beginning Nov. 1, 1991, on behalf of shippers on Transco's Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corp. and Coastal's ANR Pipeline Co.

CNG plans to transport 250 MMcfd of natural gas from Lebanon, Ohio, to Leidy, Pa., for ultimate delivery by TGPL to its customers in the Northeast.

CNG also plans to transport 100 MMcfd on behalf of ANR and its shippers from Lebanon to Leidy and to Syracuse, N.Y., to serve cogeneration markets.

Primary term of the proposed services is 15 years.

CNG, TRANSCO PLANS

CNG will lay 105 miles of pipeline in New York and Pennsylvania and add 92,360 hp of compression in Ohio and Pennsylvania at a cost of $200 million.

TGPL and Transco's Texas Gas Transmission Corp. filed to transport 250 MMcfd of U.S. gas for 14 New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast customers that have signed precedent agreements.

TGPL also will provide downstream transportation for certain ANR markets.

TGPL will lay 37 miles of pipeline and add 29,700 hp of compression costing $85 million.

Texas Gas will lay 88 miles of line for $112 million, and ANR will lay 120 miles of pipeline and add 2,200 hp of compression for $79 million. Pending regulatory approvals, construction is to begin in early 1991 with first deliveries in November 1991.

Projected firm transportation costs will average 8090/Mcf plus fuel costs from Midcontinent or Gulf Coast basins to city gates.