TransCanada puts Cameron Access into service

TransCanada Corp. has placed its Cameron Access natural gas pipeline project into service in southwestern Louisiana. Cameron Access involved improvements to existing pipeline, construction of a compressor station, and the addition of 27 miles of 36-in. OD greenfield pipeline.

The bidirectional pipeline will transport as much as 800 MMcfd to the Cameron LNG liquefaction plant, currently under construction and scheduled to put its roughly 5 million-tonne/year Train 1 into service by yearend 2019.

Cameron LNG’s first three trains will have a total export capacity of 14.95 million tpy (2.1 bcfd of natural gas). A planned two-train expansion would increase capacity to 24.92 million tpy. The expansion has received necessary authorizations from both the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy, but Cameron LNG’s partners (Sempra LNG & Midstream, Mitsui & Co., Mitsubishi Corp., Engie, and NYK Line) have not yet decided to expand.

Cameron Access cost about $300 million.