Discovery starts Keathley Canyon gas line open season

Discovery Producer Services LLC (DPS), owned by Williams Partners LP and DCP Midstream Partners LP, announced July 23 a nonbinding open season for its Keathley Canyon Connector natural gas project in the central Gulf of Mexico.

July 26, 2010

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Christopher E. Smith
OGJ Pipeline Editor

HOUSTON, July 26 -- Discovery Producer Services LLC (DPS), owned by Williams Partners LP and DCP Midstream Partners LP, announced July 23 a nonbinding open season for its Keathley Canyon Connector natural gas project in the central Gulf of Mexico.

The deepwater gathering line will originate in the southeast corner of the Keathley Canyon area in 7,000 ft of water, where several large discoveries and prospects have recently been announced, DPS said. The line will connect to either DPS’s existing deepwater gathering system or shelf transmission system.

DPS expects the new line, which will not fall under US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission jurisdiction, to be 150-200 miles long, depending on final route selection, with capacity for as much as 400 MMcfd and to be in service in 2013. The open season ends Aug. 6.

Williams Partners owns 60% of the DPS system, which includes an offshore gas gathering system as well as the Larose gas processing plant and Paradis fractionation facility, both onshore south of New Orleans.

Williams successfully mitigated sulfate-reducing bacteria in the DPS system following the Sept. 13, 2008, passage of Hurricane Ike (OGJ, May 3, 2010, p. 60).

Contact Christopher E. Smith at [email protected].