Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company filed a request with the FERC seeking permission to construct a pipeline enabling it to transport gas to Cameron LNG project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
In its application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline is seeking a certificate of public convenience and necessity to Tennessee to construct, install, modify, operate, and maintain certain pipeline and compression facilities in Louisiana.
According to the filing, the project is comprised of the construction of two short lateral pipeline facilities and five-meter stations interconnecting Tennessee’s existing 800 Line to five neighboring interstate pipelines.
It also includes the construction of a new compressor station in Franklin Parish, Louisiana and replacement of a turbine engine at an existing compressor station in Rapides Parish, Louisiana to increase horsepower.
The project will allow Tennessee to transport an incremental 295,000 dekatherms per day of natural gas southward on its 800 Line to an existing point of interconnection with Cameron Interstate Pipeline, for subsequent delivery to Cameron LNG’s planned natural gas liquefaction and export facility.
Tennessee requested the commission to issue the requested certificate authorizations by November 1, 2016 which would allow Tennessee to complete the acquisition of property for the new pipeline and compressor station locations, materials procurement, and construction of the project before February 1, 2018, the in-service date requested by the project shippers, Mitsubishi Corporation and MMGS, which have executed binding precedent agreements with Tennessee.
LNG World News Staff; Image: Cameron LNG