By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 16 -- Two subsidiaries of Southern Natural Gas Co. (SNG) have filed separate applications with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build a pipeline and to expand an LNG receiving terminal near Savannah, Ga., reported El Paso Corp., Houston, SNG's parent company.
The proposed Elba Express Pipeline, to be built by Elba Express Co. LLC (EEC), will have a total capacity of 1.2 bcfd of gas. The 190-mile 36-42-in. pipeline will transport gas from EEC's Elba Island LNG terminal to Georgia and South Carolina, and to the US Southeast and Northeast via its interconnects.
The Elba Island LNG receiving terminal expansion, planned by Southern LNG, will add 8.4 bcf of LNG storage capacity, which will more than double to 15.7 bcf. This expansion project will increase send-out capacity to 2.1 bcfd, representing an addition of about 0.9 bcfd.
The projects will be constructed in phases with the in-service date of the first phase of each scheduled for 2010 and the second phase of each expected to be in 2012. The estimated cost for all phases of both projects is $930 million.
