Williams Announces Open Season for Regional Energy Access Expansion
March 08 2019 - 11:45AM
Business Wire
Transco Project Designed to Minimize
Environmental Impacts; Help Northeast Region Meet Its Clean Air
Goals
Williams (NYSE: WMB) today announced that it is initiating a
binding open season from March 8 to April 8, 2019, for Regional
Energy Access, an incremental expansion of the Transco
interstate pipeline to provide firm natural gas transportation
capacity to markets in the northeastern United States as early as
November 2022.
Regional Energy Access is being designed to provide up to one
million dekatherms per day of firm transportation capacity to the
Transco pipeline's northeast market, including existing
Pennsylvania and New Jersey local distribution companies and power
generators. Demand for natural gas in the Northeast continues to
rise as businesses rely on natural gas to help meet clean air
goals.
"Regional Energy Access is a cost-effective expansion along an
existing Transco corridor that will ultimately deliver more than a
billion cubic feet of new natural gas supply with minimal
environmental footprint,” said Scott Hallam, senior vice president
of Williams’ Atlantic-Gulf Operating Area. “The project will expand
existing infrastructure to meet the region’s growing demand for
natural gas while helping reduce air emissions.”
Regional Energy Access minimizes environmental impacts by
maximizing the use of existing Transco pipeline infrastructure and
rights of way. The preliminary design of the project consists of
additional compression and selected pipeline loop segments along
the existing Transco pipeline corridor. Although the final
capacity, scope and cost of the project will be determined by the
results of the open season, it is anticipated that the project will
include approximately 34 miles of pipeline looping and additional
compression along existing Transco facilities.
The project will connect robust Marcellus supply from receipt
points along the Transco pipeline’s Leidy Line in Luzerne County,
Pennsylvania, to delivery points in Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
including the Station 210 Zone 6 Pool in Mercer County, New Jersey,
the Lower Mud Run Road interconnect in Northampton County,
Pennsylvania, and along Transco’s mainline to Station 200, Marcus
Hook lateral and Trenton Woodbury lateral.
The proposed project will be subject to approval by the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission and other agencies. For customer
inquiries, contact Kelsie Van Hoose at (713) 215-2396.
About Williams
Williams (NYSE: WMB) is a premier provider of large-scale
infrastructure connecting U.S. natural gas and natural gas products
to growing demand for cleaner fuel and feedstocks. Headquartered in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, Williams is an industry-leading, investment grade
C-Corp with operations across the natural gas value chain including
gathering, processing, interstate transportation and storage of
natural gas and natural gas liquids. With major positions in top
U.S. supply basins, Williams owns and operates more than 30,000
miles of pipelines system wide – including Transco, the nation’s
largest volume and fastest growing pipeline – providing natural gas
for clean-power generation, heating and industrial use. Williams’
operations handle approximately 30 percent of U.S. natural gas.
www.williams.com
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