BLM seeks comments on NGL pipeline environmental assessment

July 17, 2012
The US Bureau of Land Management has released an environmental assessment of a proposed 95-mile natural gas liquids pipeline in eastern Utah and western Colorado and is seeking public comments on the project, BLM’s Grand Junction field office said.

The US Bureau of Land Management has released an environmental assessment of a proposed 95-mile natural gas liquids pipeline in eastern Utah and western Colorado and is seeking public comments on the project, BLM’s Grand Junction field office said.

It said that Enterprise Mid-America Pipeline Co. is seeking approval to begin construction on the 16-in. line, the Western Expansion Project II, which would be part of a larger pipeline system from Colorado and Wyoming to Hobbs, NM.

The segment would begin in southeastern Uintah County, Utah, and follow an existing pipeline corridor across Rio Blanco, Garfield, and Mesa counties in Colorado before terminating north of Moab, Utah. It would increase current capacity by 15,000 b/d, BLM said.

Comments on the preliminary EA will be accepted through July 31, it said.

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Nick Snow

NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.