PLANNEDProjects in development (Projects added for the current month are highlighted and in bold face type)

GAS – The Americas Th e ASAP Project is a 737-mile long, 36-inch diameter new gas-fi red compressor unit and piping modifi cations; natural gas pipeline originating at Prudhoe Bay and modifi cations to the existing Ceredo Compressor Station U.S. terminating near Point MacKenzie with a spur pipeline to in Wayne County requiring two new gas-fi red compressor Fairbanks. Th e pipeline is designed to develop a long-term units and piping modifi cations; and modifi cations to the AGL RESOURCES – (5/16) energy solution for Fairbanks, South Central Alaska, and existing Elk River Compressor Station in Kanawha County AGL Resources has proposed the Suwanee to Friendship other communities along the route. requiring one new gas-fi red compressor unit and piping Pipeline that will begin just south of Buford Highway CH2M HILL will provide an integrated-team program modifi cations. (around Peavy Trail) in north Gwinnett County and management platform. Th ey will provide experienced Th e company plans to formally fi le with FERC in then will continue east for approximately 12 miles to the program management personnel as well as systems, April 2016. Contingent on regulatory approval, Columbia intersection of Th ompson Mill Road and Spout Springs processes, and tools to support AGDC in fi nalizing the anticipates initiating construction in the fall of 2017, with a Road in south Hall County. Pre-construction activities are pipeline and processing plant designs as well as needed targeted in-service date of October 31, 2018. underway and must be completed before the fi nal route is permitting, licensing and land actions. Major areas of scope selected. Pipeline construction is expected to begin in Fall to be supported include owner’s engineering oversight, (4/16) Columbia Pipeline Group’s proposed Leach XPress 2016. project controls, safety, permitting, licensing, quality, project involves construction of approximately 160 miles of procurement, logistics and other services during the natural gas pipeline and compression facilities in southeastern ALASKA LNG PROJECT – (6/15) development phase of the ASAP. Ohio and West Virginia’s panhandle. Th e roughly $1.4 billion Project: Alaska LNG AGDC expects construction of the pipeline to begin in investment will enable the safe transport of approximately 1.5 Type: Project includes the construction of a mid-2016 and the ASAP Project to ship its fi rst gas by late Bcf of natural gas from the heart of the Appalachian supply 48-inch pipeline and is in an early phase 2020. Th e development phase is expected to cost about $355 basin to natural gas consumers served by the Columbia Gas of development called pre-front-end million, while the construction will cost around $7.7 billion. and Columbia Gulf pipeline systems. When completed, engineering and design the new Leach XPress pipeline and compressor system will Miles: 800 COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION – (5/16) supply this region with domestic, clean-burning natural gas Location: Prudhoe Bay, AK – Nikiski, AK Columbia Gas Transmission, a subsidiary of Columbia for generations to come. Start: 2019 Pipeline Group, has proposed a pipeline modernization Columbia has already begun extensive outreach to Completion: 2024 project for Fairfi eld and Franklin counties in Ohio. landowners and communities in areas where the Leach Comments: The Alaska LNG Project is anchored by Th e B-System Project includes the construction of XPress project will be constructed. Prior to construction, the Prudhoe Bay and Point Thomson approximately seven miles of new pipeline and the this project will undergo a comprehensive and transparent fi elds. These fi elds are expected to deliver replacement of an existing 13.8-mile pipeline. Th e project environmental review overseen by the Federal Energy on average about 3.5 billion cubic feet also involves the retirement of a 17.6-mile pipeline and Regulatory Commission. Th roughout the review period, of gas per day with about 75% from the upgrades to ancillary B-System equipment and facilities, the Leach XPress project team will continue to work closely Prudhoe Bay fi eld and 25% from the Point including replacing a total of 3,500 feet of pipeline at two with landowners, local offi cials and communities to provide Thomson fi eld diff erent interconnect locations. up-to-date information and ensure community involvement Th e project is part of Columbia’s ongoing Modernization in the process. AMERICAN MIDSTREAM PARTNERS LP – Program to replace aging infrastructure, upgrade natural Columbia anticipates initiating construction in late 2016, (4/16) gas compression systems and increase pipeline reliability. with a targeted in-service date during the second half of American Midstream Partners LP announced that Th e B-System has been slated for modernization because 2017. American Midstream LLC is commencing a non-binding it includes vital natural gas supply lines for the Columbus open season for a proposed 45-mile extension of the metro area, as well as for several towns and cities along the CONSTITUTION PIPELINE CO. LLC – (REV Magnolia Intrastate pipeline to transport up to 500,000 developing U.S. Route 33 corridor southeast of Columbus. 5/16) Dth/d of natural gas for delivery to a major interstate Upgrades to the B-System will allow Columbia’s pipeline (AP) New York environmental regulators have rejected pipeline beginning in 2019. integrity engineers to employ state-of-the-art internal a critical permit needed for a major natural gas pipeline Th e proposed Magnolia Extension would connect the inspection devices called “smart pigs” that improve safety project, saying the project fails to meet standards that existing Magnolia Intrastate pipeline to Tennessee Natural and reliability by providing detailed information regarding protect hundreds of streams, wetlands and other water Gas Pipeline’s 500 Line, providing transport of natural the condition and operability of the pipelines. resources in its path. gas under 20-year, fi rm transport agreements to Williams’ Th e company fi led with FERC and construction is slated Th e Department of Environmental Conservation said Transco pipeline through an existing interconnect. Th e for 2018. it won’t issue a water quality permit for the 124-mile proposed pipeline is intended to off er supply diversity Constitution Pipeline from Pennsylvania’s shale gas fi elds to to growing demand areas in the Southeast market, and COLUMBIA PIPELINE GROUP – (2/16) eastern New York. Th e agency said the project’s construction specifi cally, address infrastructure constraints associated Columbia Pipeline Group is proposing to construct and would aff ect 251 streams and 500 acres of valuable forest as with the rapid development of natural gas from the operate approximately 165 miles of various diameter well as extensive wetlands. Marcellus and Utica Shale formations in the Appalachian pipeline, three new compressor stations, modifi cations Th e Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Basin. Th e anticipated in-service date for the Magnolia to three existing compressor stations and one regulating the pipeline project in 2014 contingent on the state permit, Extension is 2019. station. Th e Mountaineer XPress project would provide an which is required by the federal Clean Water Act. Th e additional 2.7 Bcf/d capacity of fi rm transportation service project had all needed permits for a segment in Pennsylvania ANR PIPELINE – (7/16) from the Marcellus and Utica production areas to markets and had already cleared trees there in preparation for Project: Southeast Mainline on the Columbia Gas Transmission system, including construction. Type: Project includes pipeline reversal markets in western West Virginia, TCO Pool, and other Constitution Pipeline Co., a partnership formed by Miles: 320 mutually agreeable points. Cabot Oil & Gas, Williams Partners and Piedmont Natural Location: Indiana - Eunice, Louisiana Th e Mountaineer XPress project will facilitate continued Gas Co., can appeal the state decision to the U.S. Circuit Comments: Project will have an additional capacity of use of a domestically-produced, low-cost source of energy Court of Appeals. 1,000 MMcf/d that yields signifi cantly lower emissions than its alternatives Th e Department of Environmental Conservation said while reducing the nation’s dependence on foreign providers. that in addition to its review of Constitution’s application CH2M HILL – (11/13) In addition the construction of the new pipeline, the and supporting materials, the agency also considered more Th e Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) and project will include the following major components: new than 15,000 public comments before reaching its decision. CH2M HILL announced that CH2M HILL was selected compressor stations constructed in Calhoun, Doddridge, to provide integrated-team program management for the and Jackson counties; modifi cations to CPG’s existing Lone CROSSTEX NGL PIPELINE LP – (7/13) Alaska Stand Alone Pipeline (ASAP) Project. Oak Compressor Station in Marshall County, requiring one Crosstex NGL Pipeline LP announced the start of a

10 Pipeline News November 2016 • www.pipeline-news.com PLANNEDProjects in development binding open season for volume commitments for interstate DTE ENERGY – (REV 1/15) Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners is responsible for common carrier transportation service on a new natural DTE Energy and Southwestern Energy Co. signed an constructing and operating the 143-mile, 42-inch diameter gas liquids (NGLs) pipeline system (the Crosstex NGL agreement to signifi cantly expand their relationship centered pipeline which will originate at the Waha Hub outside Pipeline) that will transport unfractionated NGLs produced on the Bluestone Pipeline and in-fi eld gathering system. Fort Stockton, TX in northern Pecos County. Th e pipeline in the Permian Basin, Barnett Shale, Eagle Ford Shale Th e new gathering agreement increases the infrastructure will include delivery locations for local towns and utilities and other areas from the Mont Belvieu, TX area to NGL footprint associated with DTE Energy’s gathering assets in Central West Texas and terminate custody at the U.S.- fractionation facilities in Acadia and Ascension parishes, by approximately 50 percent in Susquehanna County, PA. Mexico boundary near Presidio, TX. LA for one year and to NGL fractionation facilities in Th is agreement also increases Southwestern’s transportation Th e Trans-Pecos pipeline will provide new market Acadia and Iberville parishes, LA thereafter. capacity on the Bluestone Pipeline. outlets for domestically produced clean-burning natural Th is common carrier pipeline is expected to have a Th e 44.5-mile Bluestone Pipeline can deliver 0.8 Bcf/d of gas, thereby encouraging continued production in the U.S. preliminary design capacity to Acadia Parish, LA of gas to both the Millennium Pipeline in Broome County, NY, energy sector. Construction is anticipated to start early 2016 approximately 77,000 bpd for the fi rst year and is expected and the Tennessee Gas Pipeline in Susquehanna County, and and the project is expected to be in service by the end of to reach up to approximately 132,000 bpd thereafter. Th e is currently increasing its capacity to 1.0 Bcf/d by mid-2016. 2017. open season ended on June 21, 2013. DUKE ENERGY – (8/16) EQT CORP./NEXTERA US GAS ASSETS LLC DOMINION CAROLINA – (7/16) Project: Central Corridor Pipeline Extension – (REV 12/15) Project: Columbia to Eastover Pipeline Type: Project includes the expansion of 30-inch Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC formally applied to the Type: Project involves the construction of pipeline Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for authorization new pipeline Miles: 12 to build a 301-mile interstate natural gas transmission Location: Raleigh, NC Miles: 29 pipeline designed to provide timely, cost-eff ective access Start Date: 2017 Location: South Carolina to the growing demand for natural gas for use by local distribution companies, industrial users, and power Completion:2016 EASTERN SHORE NATURAL GAS – (7/16) generation facilities in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Comments: Project will have an additional capacity Project: White Oak Mainline Expansion Project Appalachian regions of the U.S. of 18 MMcf/d Type: Project includes the construction of a new Th e Mountain Valley Pipeline would transport the pipeline lateral abundant supply of Marcellus and Utica natural gas - DOMINION COVE POINT LNG – (7/16) Location: Pennsylvania commencing in Wetzel County, WV and traversing south Project: Key Energy Project Completion: 2016 through 11 counties in WV; and southeast through six Type: Project includes the expansion of pipeline Comments: Project has fi led with FERC and will have counties in VA before ending in Pittsylvania County, VA. Miles: 4 an additional capacity of 45 MMcf/d Th e MVP is expected to provide at least 2 Bcf per day Location: Maryland of fi rm transmission capacity; and pending regulatory Comments: Project has been approved with FERC and EAGLE LNG PARTNERS – (10/16) approval, construction is anticipated to begin in late 2016, will have an additional capacity of 107 Project: Jacksonville Project with a full in-service targeted for the fourth quarter 2018. MMcf/d Type: Project includes the construction of a Th rough this certifi cate application fi ling, the Federal storage facility that will receive natural Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is being asked DENBURY RESOURCES – (7/16) gas transported by a local utility through to certify the public convenience and necessity of the MVP existing and expanded pipelines located Owner: Denbury Resources project. Th e FERC, together with several cooperating agencies, adjacent to the Jacksonville project site will conduct a detailed review and evaluation of a broad Type: Project includes construction of 20-inch Location: Louden County, VA - Franklin County, PA number of subjects, including public safety; water resources; diameter pipeline Comments: Upon FERC review of all 13 Resource karst topography; air quality; wildlife, soils, and vegetation; Miles: 110 Reports, and Eagle LNG addressing any protected species; cultural and historic resources; sound levels; Location: Glendive, MT concerns identifi ed by FERC, Eagle LNG realistic alternatives; and cumulative economic benefi ts. Start Date: 2018 anticipates that FERC will grant Filing On October 31, 2014, the FERC granted authorization status in 2017 DOMINION TRANSMISSION – (1/16) to begin the pre-fi ling process for the MVP project. During the past year, the MVP team has conducted 16 open houses, Dominion Carolina Gas Transmission will construct and/ EAST TENNESSEE NATURAL GAS LLC – in addition to the six scoping meetings hosted by the FERC, or modify and operate the Transco to Charleston Project, (REV 3/16) all aimed at encouraging an open dialogue with community consisting of the following facilities: Moore to Chappells East Tennessee Natural Gas LLC has received indications members, landowners, and public agencies in order to Pipeline; Dillon Pipeline; Moore Compressor Station; of interest to expand its system to serve markets in Loudon receive comments and feedback on the MVP project. Dorchester Compressor Station; Southern Compressor County, TN, and has identifi ed the facilities required for Th e MVP project team considered more than 1,000 Station; and the Charleston Town Border Station. the expansion of the East Tennessee pipeline system to miles of alternatives and variations to the proposed route, Th e Transco to Charleston Project will include move natural gas from the SONAT Bradley interconnect and made numerous minor adjustments for individual approximately 60 miles of pipeline including two new in Bradley County, TN to markets in Loudon County, TN. natural gas transmission pipelines, upgrades to an existing Th e Loudon Expansion Project will provide shippers property owners along the route, in order to mitigate compressor station, and the addition of a new compressor with the opportunity to obtain fi rm transportation capacity concerns that were raised during the pre-fi ling process. Th e station. Construction is slated for January 2017. from a point of interconnect between Southern Natural and proposed route identifi ed in the application encompasses East Tennessee’s mainline at SONAT Bradley (Receipt these various revisions, which include the protection of (REV 6/16) Dominion Transmission has proposed the 39- Meter No. 59311) to delivery point(s) off East Tennessee’s streams, wetlands, and cultural resources, as well as the mile long, 30-inch and 36-inch diameter Supply Header mainline located between East Tennessee’s Ooltewah avoidance of or modifi cation to several sensitive areas and project, which will consist of two loops transporting natural Compressor Station (Station No. 3214) and Maryville karst topography regions. gas in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. New pipeline will Compressor Station (Station No. 3219) as well as delivery EXXON MOBIL CORP./BP/ primarily be constructed along existing pipeline rights-of- point(s) off its mainline extension into Loudon County. CONOCOPHILLIPS/TRANSCANADA/ way and will include about four miles of 30-inch-diameter Currently, the project is pending approval from FERC. ALASKA GASLINE DEVELOPMENT CORP. – pipeline in Westmoreland County, PA, and 35 miles of Construction will start in spring 2016. Th e target in-service (REV 11/14) 36-inch-diameter pipeline in Harrison, Doddridge, Tyler date is September 2016. and Wetzel counties, WV. Modifi cations and facility ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips and TransCanada have upgrades will be made at Dominion’s existing compressor ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS – (3/16) selected a site in the Nikiski area on the Kenai Peninsula as stations in Westmoreland and Greene counties in Th e Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave the lead site for the proposed Alaska LNG project’s natural Pennsylvania, and Marshall and Wetzel counties in West preliminary approval for the proposed Th e Trans-Pecos gas liquefaction plant and terminal. Virginia. Th ese modifi cations will result in approximately Pipeline. Th e pipeline will be a Texas intrastate pipeline More than 20 locations were evaluated based on 75,000 horsepower of additional compression. designed to transport 1.4 Bcf/d of clean-burning natural conditions related to the environment, socioeconomics, cost, Th e company has fi led with FERC and is awaiting gas as part of an agreement with Comisión Federal de and other project and technical issues. approval. Electricidad, Mexico’s federal electricity commission. “Th is is a step forward for the Alaska LNG project and PLANNEDProjects in development shows continued progress toward building Alaska’s energy inch natural gas pipeline connecting its existing Webb Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to construct future,” said Steve Butt, senior project manager. “Th e work County Hub in Webb County, TX to Escobedo, Nuevo 82 miles of 24-inch natural gas pipeline in Elk, Jeff erson, that we have put into the site selection process gives us León, Mexico, and the Mexican National Pipeline System Clearfi eld, Cameron and Clinton counties and compressor confi dence that the Nikiski site is the lead location for (Sistema Nacional de Gasoductos) in Monterrey. stations in Jeff erson County (approximately 19,000 HP) the LNG plant and terminal. Th e Nikiski site also results Expected to be in-service in July 2017, the Nueva Era and Elk County (approximately 7,000 HP). Th e new in a pipeline route that provides an access opportunity to Pipeline, which will be developed in conjunction with HEP’s 82-mile pipeline system will transport locally produced North Slope natural gas by the major population centers Mexican partner, will provide seamless transportation Marcellus Shale gas to the market center at Leidy, PA, and in Fairbanks, Mat-Su Valley, Anchorage and the Kenai service for up to 600 MMcf/d of natural gas from South provide reliable supplies of energy to western Pennsylvania Peninsula.” Texas to Escobedo, Nuevo León, near Monterrey. It will and the northeastern U.S. A number of engineering, technical, regulatory, fi scal, connect producers in South Texas directly with end-users in Th is West to East – Overbeck to Leidy project will commercial and permitting issues still need to be resolved Mexico, creating access to multiple growing markets. consist of two sections. Th e East Section will begin near as work on the potential $45-65+ billion project progresses. Weedville, PA, and end at Leidy Station near Renovo, PA While Nikiski is the lead site, the project team continues IMPULSORA PIPELINE – (7/16) Th e West Section will begin at Overbeck Station near Sigel, to consider other secondary locations. Pipeline routing Project: Impulsora Pipeline PA, and end near Weedville, PA Th e West Section, for defi nition work also continues based on the project summer Type: The border-crossing facilities will consist the most part, will run parallel to National Fuel’s 12-inch fi eld work activities, which will be extended south of of one 36-inch pipeline and one 12-inch pipeline known as FM-100. Livengood. pipeline that will run parallel to the Th e companies are continuing to refi ne the agreed project 36-inch pipeline. NATIONAL FUEL GAS SUPPLY CORP./ concept that includes a gas treatment plant located on the Miles: 1.3 EMPIRE PIPELINE INC. – (11/14) North Slope, an 800-mile long, 42-inch diameter pipeline Location: Texas - Mexico National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. and Empire Pipeline Inc. with up to eight compression stations and at least fi ve Completion: 2016 plan to fi le a joint application with the Federal Energy off -take points for in-state gas delivery, and a liquefaction Comments: Project has been approved and will have Regulatory Commission (FERC) for authorization to plant and terminal. Th e teams are currently preparing for an additional capacity of 1,122 MMcf/d construct the Northern Access 2016 Project. Th is project will more detailed engineering and design work, consistent with transport regionally produced supplies of natural gas into the previously released plan phases. KAISER-FRONTIER MIDSTREAM LLC – (7/16) interstate natural gas pipeline system and will provide reliable Project: Silo Pipeline supplies of energy to the northeastern U.S. and Canada. FAIRBANKS PIPELINE CO. – (REV 8/15) Type: Project includes construction of new Th e Northern Access 2016 Project is currently in the Fairbanks Pipeline Company (FPC) is proposing a 514- natural gas pipeline and conversion of an FERC NEPA Pre-fi ling process at Docket Number PF14- mile, 12-inch pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to North Pole, existing segment of intrastate pipeline to 18-000. Th e proposed project will include the following: AK, with an option to upsize to 18-inches and extend the interstate service approximately 97 miles of new 24-inch diameter pipeline, line to Anchorage, AK. The construction cost of the Arctic Miles: 31 from Sergeant Township, McKean County, PA to an Fox Pipeline is estimated at $716 million for the base case, Location: Laramie County, WY -Weld County, CO interconnection with Supply’s existing Line X-North, $1 billion for case 2, and $2.1 billion for case three. A Completion: 2017 at or near the Porterville Compressor Station in the secondary transmission network comprised of a 2.5-inch Comments: Project also includes the installation of Town of Elma, Erie County, NY; an approximately 2,500 to 4-inch high pressure, steel coiled flow-lines is planned ancillary facilities including pig launchers, horsepower compression addition at Supply’s existing to emanate from FPC’s high pressure backbone traverse pig receivers, and new mainline valves Porterville Compressor Station; and an interconnection through Fairbanks, AK. with Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s 200 Line in the Town of A non-binding open season, administered by Energia LACLEDE GROUP – (3/16) Wales, Erie County, NY. Cura, ran through Oct. 1, 2010. Current non-binding gas Th e Laclede Group has proposed a 60-mile gas pipeline Th e project would include Empire’s construction of: a 24- nominations received by FPC are said to have reached 19 to link the Marcellus and Utica shale plays. Th e line would inch pipeline segment of approximately 4 miles, replacing 3.3 Bcf/yr. FPC says its pipeline system can begin operation run from St. Louis through Illinois and connect with the miles of existing 16-inch Supply pipeline and 0.7 miles of in 2017. Rockies Express and Panhandle Eastern Pipeline. Th e existing Empire; a pipeline in the Towns of Wheatfi eld and project will require FERC approval and has a completion Pendleton, Niagara County, NY; a new, approximately 15,000 GULF SOUTH PIPELINE LP – (REV 9/15) date 30 to 36 months after breaking ground. horsepower compressor station in the Town of Pendleton, Gulf South Pipeline LP fi led with FERC for Certifi cate Niagara County, NY; and a new natural gas dehydration of Public Convenience and Necessity under CP15-157 for MILLENNIUM PIPELINE CO. – (5/16) facility in the Town of Wheatfi eld, Niagara County, NY. its Coastal Bend Header Project. Th e Coastal Bend Header Th e Millennium Pipeline Co. announced that the Federal National Fuel hopes to begin construction activities in Project proposes to build a new supply header pipeline as Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the 2017. well as expand and modify sections of Gulf South’s existing company to use its pre-fi ling process to review Millennium’s Legacy System to transport natural gas from Eagle Ford proposal to upgrade and expand the East end of its system. NATURAL GAS PIPELINE CO. OF AMERICA to Freeport LNG’s liquefaction facility on Quintana Island Th e project, named the Eastern System Upgrade, will LLC – (REV 6/15) in Brazoria County, TX. Th e proposed supply header will be co-located along Millennium’s existing 244 miles of Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America LLC (NGPL) has consist of 66 miles of 36-inch diameter lateral pipeline right-of-way. Th e proposal includes: An estimated 7.8 executed binding agreements with Antero Resources, located in Wharton and Brazoria County, TX and creates miles of 36-inch looped pipeline parallel to their current Nicor Gas, North Shore Gas and Occidental Energy 1.42 Bcf/d of new pipeline capacity. infrastructure in Orange County; upgrades to the existing Marketing Inc. for incremental fi rm transportation service Th e Legacy System expansion, specifi cally Index 129, Hancock Compressor Station in Delaware County; new on its Gulf Coast mainline system from the Rockies will provide an additional 1.4 Bcf/d of fi rm transportation compression capabilities at a facility in Sullivan County; Express Pipeline (REX) interconnection in Moultrie capacity into the Coastal Bend Header through a new and upgrades to existing Ramapo Meter and Regulation County, Illinois, to points north on NGPL’s pipeline interconnect and involves construction of new compressors Station in Rockland County. Th e project has an anticipated system. Th ese commitments will support the fi rst phase of in Harris and Fort Bend County, TX, and modifi cation to in-service date of fall 2018. NGPL’s Chicago Market Expansion project, which will existing Magasco compressor station in Sabine County, increase NGPL’s capacity by 238,000 Dth/d and provide TX. In addition, the expansion project also includes MOUNTAINEER GAS CO. – (6/16) transportation service to markets in proximity to Chicago, piping modifi cation at the existing Goodrich station in Owner: Mountaineer Gas Co. IL. Th e contracts, which include a variety of customers Polk County, TX, to allow fl ow reversal to the south. Gulf Type: Project involves the construction of 56.4- and demonstrate the broad appeal of the project, are for an South has requested an application decision on or before mile, 6- to 12-inch pipeline that will be average term of over 11 years. June 1, 2016, in order to meet the anticipated Spring 2017 done in three segments NGPL intends to fi le a 7(c) certifi cate application with construction start date and target April 1, 2018, in-service Miles: 56.4 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in June 2015, date. Location: Martinsburg, WV with the project expected to be in service in November 2016. Start Date: 2017 Th ose interested in obtaining more detailed information HOWARD MIDSTREAM ENERGY PARTNERS about NGPL’s potential for further expansion in a LLC – (8/15) NATIONAL FUEL GAS SUPPLY CORP. – second phase of this project should contact Mark Menis, Howard Midstream Energy Partners LLC plans to develop (REV 10/14) director of Business Development for NGPL, at CMEP@ the Nueva Era Pipeline, an approximately 200-mile, 30- National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. has fi led with the Federal kindermorgan.com or (630) 725-3052.

12 Pipeline News November 2016 • www.pipeline-news.com PLANNEDProjects in development

NAVITAS MIDSTREAM – (5/16) opportunities for public input by landowners, residents billion of these projects have received regulatory approval, Navitas Midstream has proposed a 61-mile, 16-inch and and other stakeholders. It will also prompt parallel with $800 million under construction, and an additional 20-inch pipeline near Midland, TX. Construction is slated environmental review by numerous state and federal $1.7 billion of facilities are under regulatory review. for mid-2016. regulatory agencies. Th e formal application requests that Th e 2018 expansion includes multiple projects that FERC issue an approval of the project in the fourth quarter total 55 miles of 20- to 48-inch diameter pipeline, one NEXTDECADE LLC – (REV 6/16) of 2016. Construction is anticipated to begin in early 2017. new compressor, approximately 35 new and expanded NextDecade LLC submitted an offi cial request to the U.S. meter stations and other associated facilities. Applications Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to enter NORTHERN BORDER PIPELINE CO. – to construct and operate the various components of the the pre-fi ling process for its Rio Grande Liquefi ed Natural (12/14) 2018 expansion program will be fi led with the National Gas (LNG) project and associated Rio Bravo Pipeline. Northern Border Pipeline Co. announced the Energy Board between the second quarter of 2016 and NextDecade LLC received notifi cation from FERC of commencement of a one-month, non-binding open season the fourth quarter of 2016. Subject to regulatory approvals, acceptance into the pre-fi ling process and was assigned to gauge shipper interest in a pipeline project to transport construction is expected to start in 2017, with all facilities docket number PF15-20-000. natural gas from the Bakken area of North Dakota into its expected to be in service in 2018. Rio Grande LNG, a wholly owned subsidiary of pipeline system. Th e 2018 NGTL expansion program represents the NextDecade, is a multi-billion dollar land-based LNG Th e proposed Bakken Header Supply Lateral project minimum system additions required to meet current export project located on a 1,000-acre site along the will consist of approximately 64 miles of 16-inch diameter contracts. Additional expansions may be required following Brownsville Shipping Channel in Brownsville, TX. pipeline, compression and related facilities that would a full assessment of our aggregate system requirements to be NextDecade’s proposal includes plans for up to 6 extend westward from near the outlet of Hess Corp.’s Tioga completed by the end of 2015. liquefaction trains utilizing proven, reliable, safe, and processing plant in northwestern North Dakota to where effi cient technology, with a nominal output capacity of 4.5 it will provide access to additional processing facilities. At NYSEG – (4/16) million tons of LNG per train a year. Th e facility will be full capacity, the project will be capable of transporting up NYSEG is planning to replace an aging 8-inch-diameter constructed in phases timed to meet market demand. In to 295 MMcf/d. natural gas pipeline with a 25-mile, 10-inch diameter addition, the proposed 129-mile Rio Bravo Pipeline will pipeline that will run from Norwich to Oneonta. Th e supply the facility with its feed-gas, connecting the facility NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO. – (3/16) DeRuyter Pipeline has fi led with the Public Service to the highly liquid Agua Dulce natural gas market hub. Northern Natural Gas Co. has announced its intention to Commission and is planning for construction in 2019. Th e Rio Grande Pipeline kicked off an open season in construct and operate certain pipeline facilities in support June to to solicit commitments for fi rm natural gas pipeline of its customer’s growth requirements for natural gas. PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPELINE – (7/16) transportation for new pipeline facilities that it proposes to Th e Northern Lights 2017 Expansion project is a part of Project: Panhandle Eastern Project construct. Northern’s commitment to a multi-year expansion project Type: Project includes pipeline reversal for its customers through 2026. Th e 2017 expansion includes Location: Ohio – Indiana – Illinois¬ Project: Rio Grande LNG Export plans to construct one new compressor station at Lake Mills Completion: 2017 Type: Project includes the construction of up located in Worth County, IA, and to add a compressor unit Comments: Project has been approved and will have to six liquefaction trains, with a nominal at the existing compressor station in Faribault, MN. an additional capacity of 750 MMcf/d output capacity of 4.5 million tons of LNG Initial plans also call for the construction of three pipeline per train per year segments: (mileage is approximate) a 2.6-mile 12-inch- PENNEAST PIPELINE CO. LLC – (REV 5/16) Miles: 137 diameter Rochester branch line loop; a 2-mile extension PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC plans to construct a 100-mile Location: Brownsville, TX of Northern’s existing 8-inch-diameter Princeton branch pipeline intended to bring lower cost natural gas produced Start: 2017 line loop; and a 2.8-mile extension of Northern’s existing in the Marcellus Shale region to homes and businesses in Comments: Project has fi led with the U.S. Federal 12-inch-diameter St. Cloud branch line loop. All pipeline Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Th e PennEast Pipeline is Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) loops are located in the state of Minnesota. Construction designed to provide natural gas service to the equivalent of for authorization to site, construct and will start late 2016. 4.7 million homes, up to 1 Bcf/d, off ering consumer savings operate Rio Grande LNG in lower energy and gas transportation costs. Th e pipeline (3/16) Northern Natural Gas Co. has announced its will begin in Luzerne County in northeastern Pennsylvania NEXUS GAS TRANSMISSION – (1/16) intention to construct and operate pipeline facilities in and end at Transco’s Trenton-Woodbury interconnection in Th e NEXUS Gas Transmission project reached a signifi cant support of its customer’s growth requirements for natural New Jersey. PennEast is investing nearly $1 billion to build milestone as it formally applied to the Federal Energy gas. Th e Cedar Station Upgrade includes plans to construct the pipeline with the costs split among the four entities. Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a Certifi cate of Public approximately 7.8 miles of 20-inch-diameter pipeline UGIES is the project manager for the development of the Convenience and Necessity to construct and operate an looping Northern’s existing Rosemount Junction to project and will operate the pipeline. approximately 255-mile interstate natural gas pipeline. Th e Minneapolis No. 1 branch line, located in Dakota County, Additionally, the new pipeline is expected to benefi t the NEXUS project provides critically needed Appalachian MN. region’s economy and create jobs. During the seven-month Basin natural gas to growing markets in Ohio, Michigan Most of the proposed pipeline route will loop Northern’s construction phase, the PennEast project is estimated to and the Dawn Hub in Ontario, Canada. existing branch line. Th e last segments of pipeline are create in excess of 2,000 new jobs, as well as many other Th e FERC application initiates the agency’s formal planned to be installed within an existing utility corridor ancillary jobs. PennEast recently announced that the project environmental review of the project as the lead federal and along a highway. Th e pipeline facilities are required to will be delayed. agency charged with coordinating National Environmental meet a contractual obligation with Xcel Energy Inc. that Policy Act (NEPA) compliance in reviewing pipeline calls for Northern to upgrade its pressure at the existing PORT ARTHUR LNG – (REV 5/15) certifi cate applications. Cedar Station yard from 400 psig to 650 psig. Th e increased Sempra Energy announced its subsidiary, Port Arthur During this period, FERC will evaluate all potential pressure will be used for incremental electric generation by LNG, has requested that the Federal Energy Regulatory environmental impacts, as well as the company’s plans to Xcel at the Cedar power plant. Commission (FERC) initiate the pre-fi ling review for address and minimize those. Th e application fi ling includes the company’s proposed Port Arthur LNG natural gas responses to comments made during the FERC scoping NOVA GAS TRANSMISSION LTD. – (1/16) liquefaction and export facility in Port Arthur, TX. period as well as a full evaluation of alternative routes and TransCanada Corp. announced that its wholly-owned Th e proposed liquefaction project is designed to include: potential impacts of the NEXUS project. Th e proposed subsidiary, NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL), has two natural gas liquefaction trains with a total export NEXUS route is strategically positioned to expand gas signed contracts for 2.7 Bcf/d of new fi rm natural gas capability of approximately 10 million tons per annum, service while minimizing environmental impacts. transportation service that will require a $570 million or 1.4 Bcf/d; two 160,000-cubic-meter storage tanks; Access to natural gas will enable communities along system expansion for 2018. marine facilities for vessel berthing and loading; natural the proposed route to attract employers and provide low- Signifi cant growth in unconventional natural gas supplies gas liquids and refrigerant storage; feed gas pre-treatment; cost energy to residential consumers and businesses. Th e in northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia truck loading and unloading areas; and combustion turbine market-based approach of siting the NEXUS pipeline are the primary driver for these new contracts, coupled with generators for self-generation of electrical power. stands to benefi t customers all along the route, including continued growth in market demand. On March 20, Port Arthur LNG also fi led a permit local distribution companies, industrial parks and electricity Th e 2018 expansion program will increase the overall application with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) generating plants. investment on the NGTL System beyond the already for authorization to export the LNG produced from Th e FERC review process will continue to provide announced $7.5 billion of projects. Approximately $2.8 the proposed project to all current and future Free Trade PLANNEDProjects in development

Agreement (FTA) countries and expects to submit to the SDG&E has requested CPUC approval in 2017 in order to users, natural gas fi red generation, and other regional DOE an application for authorization to export the LNG achieve a pipeline in-service date of 2020. demands. Th e Sooner Trails Pipeline will be developed produced from Port Arthur LNG to non-FTA countries in under FERC jurisdiction. Sooner Trails has fi led to begin the coming months. SAWGRASS STORAGE LLC – (7/16) the FERC pre-fi ling process in order to develop the project Th e proposed project would utilize a portion of Sempra’s Project: Sawgrass Storage Mainline in a timely manner. approximately 2,900 acres of property with 3 miles of Type: Project includes the construction of a new Th e binding bid(s) received during this open season will waterfront on the Sabine-Neches Ship Channel and 1.25 24-inch and 30-inch lateral assist Southern Star and NextEra Energy in determining miles of waterfront on the Intracoastal Waterway. Miles: 14 whether to pursue the proposed project and defi ning the Th e company’s Port Arthur LNG site previously was Location: Louisiana fi nal parameters of such project. If it is decided to move evaluated and certifi ed by the FERC in 2006 for a proposed Comments: Project has been approved and will have forward after evaluating the binding bids, Southern Star import regasifi cation facility and pipeline and also was an additional capacity of 300 MMcf/d and NextEra Energy will, subject to FERC approval, permitted by the Texas Department of Transportation for install the necessary facilities to serve all or a portion of the the potential relocation of a portion of State Highway 87. SHELL PIPELINE – (11/16) requested capacity. If a binding open season is successful, Development of the Port Arthur LNG liquefaction Project: Falcon Pipeline Southern Star and NextEra Energy anticipate service project is contingent on completing the required Type: Project includes the construction of provided through the proposed pipeline in early 2018. commercial agreements, securing all necessary permits and new pipeline approvals, obtaining fi nancing and incentives, reaching a Miles: 94 SPECTRA ENERGY – (10/16) fi nal investment decision and other factors associated with Location: Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio Project: Jackfi sh Lake Expansion the investment. Start: 2018 Type: Project includes the construction of two 36-inch loops to expand to the Fort St. PORT DOLPHIN PIPELINE LP – (7/16) SIERRITA GAS PIPELINE LLC – (3/16) John mainline. Two compressor station Project: Port Dolphin LNG Pipeline Following a successful open season, Sierrita Gas Pipeline additions will also be built to move the Type: Project includes the construction of LLC announced details of a planned expansion and increased volume of gas 36-inch pipeline development of compression facilities on the Sierrita Miles: 22 Miles: 4 pipeline, which was placed in service on Oct. 31, 2014. Th e Location: Taylor - Chetwynd Location: Florida approximately 60-mile, 36-inch diameter pipeline currently Comments: The project will add 137.5 MMcf/d of Completion: 2018 provides 200,846 Dth/d of fi rm transportation capacity transportation capacity to Spectra Comments: Project has been approved with FERC and and extends from Kinder Morgan Inc.’s El Paso Natural Energy’s BC Pipeline will have an additional capacity of 1,200 Gas south mainlines, near Tucson, AZ, to the U.S.-Mexico MMcf/d border near Sasabe, AZ. Project: Valley Crossing In response to expressions of interest, Sierrita conducted Type: Project includes the construction of SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC – (11/15) an open season for expansion capacity. Th e open season 36-inch or 42-inch pipeline header system San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Southern closed on Oct. 5, 2015. Sierrita received a binding bid from Miles: 168 California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) jointly asked the California Mexico’s Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and Location: Aqua Dulce Hub, Nueces County, TX Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for approval of awarded to CFE a minimum expansion volume of 230,254 Start Date: 2017 the “Pipeline Safety & Reliability Project” to construct Dth/d by April 2020 for a term of approximately 19.5 years. a 47-mile natural gas pipeline, which will implement CFE can elect to increase the expansion capacity to 309,154 (3/16) Spectra Energy has proposed the Greater new pipeline safety requirements, as well as increase the Dth/d by providing notice to Sierrita no later than Feb. 29, Philadelphia Expansion Project to help solve Philadelphia’s reliability of the clean natural gas the companies deliver 2016. In order to facilitate the expansion service, Sierrita present-day energy challenge, but it will also help establish daily to customers. is planning to install a new 16,000-21,000 horsepower the region as an energy hub, which has become a key priority Th e proposed pipeline, which is included in SDG&E’s compressor station and undertake modifi cations to existing of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce to attract and CPUC-approved Pipeline Safety and Enhancement Plan, meter station facilities. Th e pipeline’s current design capacity grow business and fuel economic development in the region. would replace the transmission role of an existing pipeline is fully subscribed under a 25-year fi rm transportation Th e project will be designed to reliably meet growing that by law must be either pressure tested or replaced. agreement with CFE. Depending on CFE’s fi nal volume demand for natural gas in Philadelphia and surrounding Th e Pipeline Safety & Reliability Project would build on election, the revised fi rm transportation capacity of the markets, while also providing environmental and economic SDG&E’s long history of safely delivering natural gas to its pipeline will be 431,100 Dth/d or 510,000 Dth/d, after benefi ts to the region. It will help alleviate a bottleneck in customers and would be constructed with state-of-the-art commissioning of expansion facilities. the existing system, thus allowing the growing demand technology, including automatic shut-off valves, advanced to be eased by the growing supply nearby. Th e additional leakage detection and advanced communication technology. SOUTHERN STAR CENTRAL CORP./ natural gas will enhance deliverability to existing utilities Along with these added safety features, the pipeline will NEXTERA US GAS ASSETS LLC – (10/15) and to a growing power generation and industrial market be tested and inspected in accordance with SDG&E’s Southern Star Central Corp. and NextEra US Gas Assets along the Delaware River. pipeline integrity program. SDG&E meets or exceeds all LLC announced the commencement of a binding open Currently, Spectra Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission state and federal pipeline safety regulations for operations season for the Sooner Trails Pipeline Project, which is LP pipeline system delivers nearly 550,000 Dth/d of natural and maintenance and has a rigorous training program for expected to connect new receipt points in Kingfi sher, gas into the greater Philadelphia region. But the existing employees, as well as community and fi rst responder training. Canadian, Grady, Stephens, Garvin, Carter, and Bryan facilities that serve the area have seen demand growth over Th e San Diego region relies primarily on a single natural counties in Oklahoma to interstate and intrastate pipeline time and are regularly subscribed at or near capacity. Th e gas transmission pipeline, which provides approximately 90 markets in Bryan County, OK and Lamar County, TX. proposed expansion would complement Texas Eastern’s percent of SDG&E’s natural gas capacity. Th e remaining Th e companies also announced the signing of a letter of existing asset base in the region and allow for connectivity 10 percent is delivered by a smaller pipeline, which was intent that outlines the potential terms of a joint venture to the shale production in the Northeast and Southwest installed in 1949 and by law must be pressure tested or that is expected to construct and own the Sooner Trails parts of Pennsylvania, as well as other supply sources. replaced. Th e new pipeline would replace the transmission Pipeline. Under the letter of intent, each company would Th e scope of the project ultimately will depend on the function of the 1949 line, minimize dependence on a single own 50 percent of the proposed joint venture. An affi liate of overall demand, but an expansion of up to 475,000 Dth/d is pipeline and modernize the system. NextEra Energy would construct the project and Southern possible. Th is would be accomplished by replacing existing Th e proposed natural gas pipeline would begin near Star, through one or more of its affi liates, would operate the pipeline with a larger diameter pipe and adding new the Riverside County line and continue south near the pipeline. pipeline looping. Interstate 15 corridor approximately 47 miles and connect to Subject to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Texas Eastern will allow nominating shippers to subscribe an existing pipeline on Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) (FERC) approval, the approximately 250 mile Sooner Trails for new fi rm transportation on the Philadelphia Lateral from Miramar in San Diego County. After analyzing several Pipeline project will extend from Kingfi sher County, OK receipt points at the head of the lateral near Eagle Compressor possible routes, SDG&E proposed a route that primarily and travel southeast to its primary delivery point in Lamar Station, and in order to increase the options for connection follows existing streets to minimize cost, environmental County, TX with the development of the Lamar Hub. Th e to supply, would be willing to off er new interconnections to impacts and impact to private properties. Sooner Trails Pipeline is expected to provide up to 1.2 other upstream pipelines as a part of this project as provided Th e CPUC will determine the fi nal design, construction, MMDth/d and off er timely, cost-eff ective access to natural for in its open season. Th e target service in-service date for and route location after a thorough environmental review. gas for expanding local distribution companies, industrial this project is the second half of 2018.

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(10/14) Spectra Energy ended a non-binding open season city-gate and storage interconnects with Nicor Gas, Th e Type: Project includes upgrades and on March 30, 2012, to gauge interest in the proposed Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co., Ameren, North Shore modifi cations to allow for bi-directional Renaissance Gas Transmission Project that would include Gas Co. and possible interstate pipeline interconnects fl ow of natural gas on their existing about 230 miles of 36, 30 and 24-inch pipe commencing with ANR Pipeline, Guardian Pipeline, Northern Border pipeline systems at the Texas Eastern system near its compressor station Pipeline, Horizon Pipeline, Alliance Pipeline and Natural Miles: 51 at Mount Pleasant, TN, and extending through northeast Gas Pipeline Co. of America. Location: Illinois – Kentucky – Tennessee - Alabama and northern Georgia to a connection with the Mississippi Transco system near Lawrenceville, GA. No construction TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE CO. – (9/16) Completion: 2017 or completion date has been released. Project: Southwest Louisiana Supply Comments: Project has been applied with FERC and Type: Project includes the installation of two will have an additional capacity of 750 SPIRE – (9/16) 36-inch pipeline laterals and compressor MMcf/d Project: Spire STL Pipeline stations Miles: 70 Miles: 4 VECTREN CORP. – (4/16) Type: Project includes the installation of steel Location: Madison and Richland parishes, LA Vectren Corp. has proposed a 15-mile, 16-inch pipeline pipeline that will interconnect to the Start Date: 2016 project. The project will involve take up and re-lay in Rockies Ex-press trains Completion:2017 Indianapolis, IN. Construction is slated for spring 2016. Location: St. Louis, MO Start Date: 2017 Project: Triad Expansion Project VERESEN INC. – (REV 5/16) Completion: 2018 Type: Project involves the expansion of 36-inch Veresen Inc. has received an order from the Federal Energy Comments: Project will be capable of delivering up pipeline Regulatory Commission (FERC) denying the applications to 400,000 Dth/d of natural gas Miles: 7 of Jordan Cove LNG and Pacifi c Connector Gas Pipeline Location: Pennsylvania seeking authorization for the construction and operation TALEN ENERGY – (8/16) Completion: 2017 of a liquefi ed natural gas export terminal and natural gas Project: Montour Lateral Comments: Project will have an additional capacity of pipeline. Specifi cally, the FERC stated that the public Type: Project includes the construction of 180 MMcf/d benefi ts of Pacifi c Connector do not outweigh the potential 30-inch pipeline for adverse impacts on landowners and communities. Miles: 15 Owner: Northwest Natural Gas “Clearly, we are extremely surprised and disappointed by Location: Montour County, PA Project: Orion the FERC decision,” said Don Althoff , President and CEO Start Date: 2018 Type: Project includes the construction of of Veresen. “Th e FERC appears to be concerned that we pipeline looping and minor modifi cations have not yet demonstrated suffi cient commercial support SPRING RIDGE CONSTRUCTORS LLC – (11/16) to one existing com-pressor station for the projects. We will continue to advance negotiations Owner: Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC Miles: 13 with customers to address this concern.” Project: Atlantic Coast Pipeline Location: Pike and Wayne counties, PA Jordan Cove LNG and Pacifi c Connector will fi le a Type: Project includes the construction of Completion: 2018 request for a rehearing of the decision. 20-inch, 36-inch and 42-inch pipeline Comments: Project will have up to 135,000 Dth/d of Miles: 600 additional fi rm natural gas capacity WBI ENERGY TRANSMISSION – (7/16) Location: Harrison County, WV – Chesapeake, VA Project: Demicks Lake Pipeline Start: 2017 TRANSCAMERON PIPELINE LLC – (9/15) Type: Project involves the construction of a Comments: Project’s construction is expected to TransCameron Pipeline LLC is conducting a binding open 24-inch lateral generate more than 17,000 jobs, $2.7 season to solicit commitments for fi rm natural gas pipeline Miles: 22 billion in total economic activity and transportation capacity designed to link the Calcasieu Location: North Dakota $4.2 million in average annual tax Pass LNG project – being developed by Venture Global Completion: 2017 revenue for cities and counties in the Calcasieu Pass LLC – with intrastate and interstate pipeline Comments: Project will have an additional capacity of project area interconnections located in eastern and western Cameron 222 MMcf/d Parish, LA. TALLGRASS ENERGY – (4/16) Th e proposed TransCameron facilities will consist of WGL MIDSTREAM INC. – (REV 3/16) Tallgrass Energy has proposed an 8-mile, 36-inch pipeline approximately 42 miles of pipeline: approximately 23.8 WGL Holdings Inc., through its subsidiary WGL in Grand Island, NE. Construction is slated for spring 2016. miles of 42-inch diameter pipeline extending to near Midstream Inc., is the lead investor in an agreement with (2/15) Grand Chenier, LA, and 18.3 miles of 42-inch diameter three other parties to create a company that will jointly Tallgrass Development LP announced that it intends pipeline extending to near Johnson’s Bayou, LA. Th e develop and own, together with Transcontinental Gas Pipe to pursue the development of a new natural gas pipeline, facilities will be designed to deliver approximately Line Co. LLC, the Central Penn Line, a 177-mile pipeline the Prairie State Pipeline, with ownership participation 2,000,000 Dth/d, and will have a maximum allowable originating in Susquehanna County, PA and extending by Tallgrass and AGL Resources Inc. Tallgrass and AGL operating pressure of 1,200 pounds per square inch to Lancaster County, PA. Th e Central Penn Line is the also announced a non-binding open season for natural gas gauge. TransCameron anticipates fi ling in late summer of greenfi eld pipeline segment of Transco’s recently announced market participants to move gas from supply connections in 2015 an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Atlantic Sunrise project which currently has a projected in- central Illinois to the Chicago Market Center and points Commission (FERC) for authorization to construct, own service date in the second half of 2017. in between. Th e project is accepting non-binding bids for As part of the agreement, WGL Midstream will invest long-term fi rm transportation capacity on the project. and operate the facilities. $410 million, resulting in a majority ownership interest in Prairie State Pipeline is expected to have a total capacity Th e targeted in-service date for this pipeline will be the company that will co-own the Central Penn Line with between 1.2 Bcf/d and 1.5 Bcf/d and has already received the fourth quarter of 2019, subject to the receipt of the an expression of interest for a commitment of 400 MMcf/d. necessary regulatory approvals and construction of the Transco. Prairie State Pipeline will provide additional supply proposed facilities by that date. Th e Central Penn Line, as part of Atlantic Sunrise, is a diversity and access to the Illinois and Midwest markets, natural gas pipeline project designed to provide new fi rm while increasing reliability through new infrastructure TRANSWESTERN PIPELINE CO. LLC – (7/16) gas transportation capacity from various supply points in construction. Prairie State Pipeline anticipates an in-service Project: Malaga Lateral northeast Pennsylvania to a delivery point into Transco’s date of Nov. 1, 2017. Type: Project includes construction of pipeline, mainline in southeast Pennsylvania. Th e pipeline will have When complete, Prairie State Pipeline is expected one meter station and other ancillary the capacity to transport and deliver up to 1.7 MMDth/d to consist of nearly 140 miles of large diameter pipeline facilities of natural gas. running in a generally north-south orientation, to connect Miles: 15 Th e Central Penn Line will be part of a transformational interstate pipelines in Doug las County, IL, to gas Location: Eddy and Lea counties, NM project in light of the increased production of natural gas in distribution systems, natural gas storage fi elds and interstate Completion: 2017 the Marcellus region, particularly in northern Pennsylvania. pipeline companies in the Chicago Market Center. Prairie Th e project will be instrumental in addressing the current State Pipeline expects to provide unique access to more than TRUNKLINE GAS CO. – (7/16) challenge of transporting natural gas from an area with 4 Bcf/d of delivery points. Potential delivery points include Project: Trunkline Backhaul Project abundant supply to existing established markets. PLANNEDProjects in development

According to media outlets, the company has fi led with fee structures and restructure commitments to incentivize looping and horsepower additions at existing Transco FERC to seek approval for construction. long-term development of the fi elds. Th e agreements with compressor facilities. Chesapeake were entered into by subsidiaries of Williams WILLIAMS PARTNERS LP – (11/16) Partners LP. Owner: Williams Partners LP (9/14) Project: Gulf Connector In the Utica, Williams and Chesapeake executed a Project: Dalton Expansion Project Type: Project involves adding compression long-term, fee-based contract that gained a new area of Type: Project is designed to expand Transco’s and making the natural gas fl ow dedication in the dry gas zone where Chesapeake and mainline by 448,000 Dth/d bi-directional on a portion of the others are targeting production growth. Th e agreement Miles: 111 Transco system extends the length of the Chesapeake acreage dedication Location: Station 210 in New Jersey - Holmesville, Location: Texas – Louisiana to 2035, increases the area of dedication by 50,000 acres MS Start: 2017 from 140,000 acres to 190,000 net acres in a strategic Start Date: 2016 Completion: 2019 area adjacent to Williams’ existing assets and converts the Completion: 2017 Comments: Project will deliver natural gas to cost-of-service mechanism to a fi xed-fee structure with Comments: Project is part of an expansion of the feed two liquefi ed natural gas export minimum volume commitments. Th is change to a fi xed-fee Transco interstate natural gas pipeline terminals in Texas and has fi led with the contract enhances Williams’ ability to gather third-party FERC volumes and build scale in Utica’s dry gas areas. Williams Canada expects this will provide the opportunity to invest more Owner: Williams Partners LP than $600 million over fi ve years to install more than 200 NOVA GAS TRANSMISSION LTD. – (7/14) Project: New York Bay Expansion miles of pipeline and related facilities as this prolifi c area of NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) is proposing Type: Project is designed to deliver an additional the basin grows with up to 800 million cubic feet per day of to construct, own and operate the Wolverine River 115,000 Dth/d of natural gas capacity to serve the development. Lateral Loop (Carmon Creek Section) Pipeline Location: Middlesex County, NJ and Richmond project. Th e project will entail the construction of 38 (10/14) County, NY Williams initiated an open season from September miles of NPS 20 pipeline and will include associated Start Date: 2016 3 to September 29, 2014 for the Western Marcellus Pipeline valve sites. If approved, the project will extend from Completion: 2017 project, an expansion of the Transco interstate pipeline a tie-in point in SW 08-91-16 W5M at the site of the Comments: Project is part of an expansion of the to provide incremental fi rm natural gas transportation proposed Otter Lake Compressor Station, to the site of Transco interstate natural gas pipeline and capacity to growing markets in the Mid-Atlantic and the proposed Carmon Creek East Sales meter station has been approved by FERCD southeastern U.S. by late 2018. (an independent project for which NGTL will make Th e Western Marcellus Pipeline project is being a separate application to the NEB), located northeast Owner: Williams Partners LP designed to provide from 1 Bcf/d to in excess of 2 Bcf/d of the Town of Peace River in NW 22-85-18 W5M. Project: Virginia Southside II Expansion of new natural gas transportation capacity from receipt NGTL fi led an application to the National Energy Type: Project will provide 250,000 Dth/d of fi rm points in the Western Marcellus and Utica supply areas Board (NEB) on March 25, 2014. transportation capacity to a delivery point to points as far south as Transco’s Zone 3 compressor on a new lateral station 65 in Mississippi and as far north as the (7/14) TransCanada Corp. announced that its wholly- Miles: 4 proposed Zone 6 River Road point in Pennsylvania. Th e owned subsidiary, NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL), Location: Greensville County, VA project would connect Williams’ Ohio Valley Midstream has signed agreements with Chevron Canada Ltd. and Start Date: 10/16 processing and gathering system in northern West an Apache Canada Ltd. wholly-owned and controlled Completion: 2017 Virginia with the Transco pipeline, the largest volume partnership for approximately 1.9 Bcf/d of fi rm natural gas Comments: Project is part of an expansion of the pipeline system in the U.S. transportation services to underpin the development of a Transco interstate natural gas pipeline and Th e project is being designed to consist of a greenfi eld major extension of TransCanada’s NGTL System. has been approved by FERCD pipeline extending from the Rockies Express pipeline Th e proposed Merrick Mainline Pipeline project will be a near Clarington, OH, and Williams Oak Grove signifi cant new link in British Columbia’s emerging liquefi ed Owner: Williams Partners LP (11/15) processing plant in Marshall County, WV, to Transco natural gas (LNG) export market. Th e pipeline will transport Project: Atlantic Sunrise compressor station 165 in southern Virginia. From there, natural gas sourced through the NGTL System to the inlet Type: Project will transport 1.7 MM Dth/d and mainline modifi cations would allow both northbound of the proposed Pacifi c Trail pipeline that will terminate at involves the Chapman and Unity Loops fl ow to the proposed River Road point and southbound the Kitimat LNG Terminal at Bish Cove near Kitimat, B.C. Miles: 207 fl ow to Station 65 for signifi cant portions of the project Th e proposed project will be an extension from the existing Location: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North capacity. Groundbirch Mainline section of the NGTL System Carolina and South Carolina Th e fi nal capacity, scope and cost of the project will be beginning near Dawson Creek, B.C. to its end point near the Start Date: 10/16 determined by the results of the open season. Th e proposed community of Summit Lake, B.C. Th e $1.9 billion project Completion: 2017 project will be subject to approval by the Federal Energy will consist of 161 miles of 48-inch pipe. Comments: Project is part of an expansion of the Regulatory Commission and other agencies. For customer TransCanada is continuing to advance its development Transco interstate natural gas pipeline and inquiries, contact James Corley at (713) 215-4607. work on the project, including fi eld studies, engineering and has been approved by FERCD design work, and pipeline routing, to support applications (10/14) Williams initiated an open season from August for regulatory approvals and fi nalize project requirements. WILLIAMS NORTHWEST PIPELINE – (REV 26 to September 23, 2014 for the Diamond East Project, Aboriginal, landowner and community engagement and 3/16) an expansion of the Transco interstate pipeline to provide consultation activities for the Merrick Mainline Pipeline Williams-Northwest Pipeline pitched the Washington fi rm natural gas transportation capacity to markets in the project have started and will be ongoing through the life Expansion Project, consisting of a 136-mile long, 36-inch northeastern U.S. by mid-2018. of the project. Construction of the Merrick Mainline is diameter pipeline. Th e project will start at the Sumas Comp Th e Diamond East Project is being designed to dependent on regulatory approval and a positive fi nal station in Whatcom County, WA, and end at the Oregon provide up to 1 Bcf/d of new natural gas transportation investment decision for the Kitimat LNG project. LNG Interconnect near Woodland, WA. Th e project capacity from receipt points along its Leidy Line in includes ten loops and compressor station upgrades. Th e Lycoming County, PA and Luzerne County, PA to its (11/13) Th e National Energy Board (NEB) is making company initially fi led with FERC in June of 2013. Market Pool at Station 210 in Mercer County, NJ where available $250,000 under its Participant Funding Program According to media outlets, FERC has recently issued it can provide supply diversity to Transco’s northeast to assist directly aff ected persons to participate in the a draft EIS. market, including existing Pennsylvania, New Jersey regulatory process of the Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. and New York local distribution companies and power (NGTL) North Montney project. A higher amount may be WILLIAMS PARTNERS LP – (10/15) generators. Diamond East will consist of additional considered once applications for funding are received. Williams announced an expansion of gas gathering services compression and selected pipeline loop segments along Th e proposed project includes the construction and for Chesapeake Energy in growing dry gas production areas the existing Transco pipeline corridor. Although the fi nal operation of 190 miles of pipeline in northeast British of the Utica Shale in eastern Ohio and a consolidation capacity, scope and cost of the project will be determined Columbia, along with associated metering facilities, valve of contracts in the Haynesville Shale in northwestern by the results of the open season, it is anticipated that the sites and possible compression facilities. Th e potential Louisiana to optimize production opportunities, streamline project will include approximately 50 miles of pipeline natural gas pipeline, referred to as the North Montney

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Mainline, will consist of two sections, Aitken Creek and Stellat’en First Nation, Ts’il Kaz Koh First Nation, West detailed descriptions of project elements, summaries of Kahta. It will connect with the existing Groundbirch Moberly First Nations and Wet’suwet’en First Nation. studies conducted to assess baseline environmental, social Mainline (Saturn Section), located 22 miles southwest of Construction has been delayed on the project as of and economic conditions, and analysis of project benefi ts. Fort St. John and will continue about 116 miles northwest October 2015. Th e Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Project of Fort St. John. team includes men and women with decades of experience If approved, the proposed pipeline would transport PEMBINA PIPELINE CORP. – (7/16) designing, building and operating natural gas pipelines natural gas from the North Montney area to the NOVA Project: Duvernay I throughout British Columbia’s challenging terrain, and a Inventory Transfer market hub and through the NGTL Type: Project supporting infrastructure includes shared commitment to creating opportunities for long-term, system and interconnected pipelines to markets in Alberta condensate, gas and water fi eld handling, local benefi ts. Furthermore, the application is designed to and North America. a gas gathering trunk line and a fuel line refl ect Spectra Energy’s approach to listening and learning, Miles: 12 and refl ecting feedback into project design and planning. (REV 11/13) Nova Gas Transmission Ltd., a wholly owned Location: Tony Creek, Alberta - Fox Creek, Alberta Th e proposed Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission subsidiary of TransCanada Pipe Lines Ltd., has proposed Completion: 2017 Project is a new natural gas system that will begin in the construction of a 50.33 mile natural gas pipeline Comments: The Field Hub will connect into Pembina’s the Cypress area of northeast B.C. and end at BG between the Leismer compressor station and the Kettle Peace Pipeline system Group’s proposed Prince Rupert LNG export facility, River Lateral Loop and Kettle River North Lateral. Th e on Ridley Island. Th e project is envisioned as a natural Leismer to Kettle River Crossover Pipeline, to be located (7/15) Pembina Pipeline Corp. has entered into binding gas transportation corridor that can allow for up to two approximately 90 km south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, agreements to proceed with a $210 million expansion pipelines with total design capacity of 8.4 Bcf/d in a single will consist of approximately 50.33 miles of new pipeline to Pembina’s pipeline infrastructure in northeast British right-of-way, creating an opportunity for multiple LNG and associated facilities. As proposed, about 28 miles Columbia (the NEBC Expansion). Th e NEBC Expansion projects to the Prince Rupert area, with as small a footprint of pipeline would be built on new right-of-way with the will transport condensate and natural gas liquids for various as possible. Service of the initial 528-mile long and up balance being located alongside, or contiguous to, existing producers in the liquids-rich Montney resource play. to 4.2 Bcf/d natural gas pipeline is currently expected pipeline, railway and all-season public highway rights of Th e project entails the construction of 99 miles of up to to commence around the end of decade, pending fi nal ways. 12-inch pipeline with a base capacity of up to 75,000 bpd investment decision. Canada’s National Energy Board has approved the that will parallel the company’s Blueberry pipeline system proposed pipeline and no construction date has been northwest of Taylor, B.C. to the Highway/Blair Creek area STEELHEAD LNG CORP. – (10/15) released. of B.C. Subject to regulatory and environmental approval, Steelhead LNG Corp. announced a pre-construction Pembina anticipates bringing the NEBC Expansion on- agreement with pipeline developer Williams to commence (3/13) Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) stream in the second quarter to fourth quarter of 2017 with the design and regulatory approvals for the Island recommended partial approval to the Governor in timeframe. Gas Connector Project, a proposed natural gas pipeline Council (GiC) for the Northwest Mainline Komie North which will transport natural gas to Vancouver Island, Extension project submitted by NOVA Gas Transmission PIERIDAE ENERGY LTD. – (5/14) where Steelhead LNG is exploring the development of two Ltd (NGTL). NGTL proposes to build a $333.2 million Pieridae Energy Ltd. announced that the honorable Randy liquefi ed natural gas (LNG) facilities. project consisting of two separate pipeline segments. The Delorey, minister of environment for the Province of Nova With the Malahat Nation, Steelhead LNG is pursuing NEB recommended approval for the Chinchaga section Scotia, has issued environmental assessment (EA) approval, the development of the proposed Malahat LNG Project, of the project, which is a 20.5 mile pipeline loop running with conditions, for the company’s proposed Goldboro a fl oating natural gas liquefaction and export facility between the Chinchaga meter station and the Meikle River LNG project. Goldboro LNG consists of a liquefi ed natural located on the shoreline of Malahat Nation-owned land compressor station, located 76 km northwest of Manning, gas (LNG) processing plant and facilities for the storage approximately 5 miles (8 kilometers) south of Mill Bay, Alberta. and export of LNG, including a marine jetty. BC, on the east coast of Vancouver Island. On the west The NEB did not recommend approval for the Komie An EA review panel appointed by the minister of coast of Vancouver Island, Steelhead LNG is exploring the North section which is an extension to the Horn River environment conducted a Class Two Environmental development of a proposed LNG facility with the Huu- Mainline and includes 60.3 miles of pipe, proposed to be Assessment, the province’s most rigorous form of review. ay-aht First Nations at Sarita Bay, BC, 46.5 miles (75 located 110 km north of Fort Nelson, BC. The NEB found Th e minister of environment accepted the panel’s kilometers) southwest of Port Alberni. that NGTL did not establish the need for a pipeline of the recommendation to approve Goldboro LNG, with certain Th e project would be an independent pipeline that proposed size to go to Fortune Creek and ruled that the conditions. would transport natural gas 33 miles (52.8 kilometers) Komie North Section is premature. Goldboro LNG will produce up to 10 million metric from Williams’ Northwest Pipeline’s interconnect with tons per annum of LNG per year and will have on-site Spectra Energy’s BC Pipeline system at Sumas, WA PACIFIC TRAIL PIPELINES LIMITED storage capacity of 690,000 cm of LNG. to Cherry Point, WA. From there, it would travel 47 PARTNERSHIP – (REV 10/15) Pieridae is in advanced discussions with several natural miles (75.2 kilometers) subsea, landing directly at the Pacifi c Trail Pipelines Limited Partnership (PTP LP), the gas producers, pipeline operators and LNG customers. In proposed Malahat LNG Project. While, the fi rst phase of First Nations (PTP) Group Limited Partnership (FNLP), June 2013, Pieridae entered into a 20-year sales agreement the project would be constructed to supply the Malahat and the Province of British Columbia announced a revised with E.ON Global Commodities SE, a subsidiary of LNG facility, the project would be designed to meet the benefi ts agreement for the proposed 287.7-mile long Pacifi c one of the world’s largest investor-owned power and gas potential capacity requirements of both proposed LNG Trail Pipeline (PTP) Project that will ensure First Nations companies, to deliver approximately 5 million metric tons facilities, thus off ering potential shared infrastructure receive immediate and long-term benefi ts from the PTP per annum of LNG from Goldboro LNG to E.ON. benefi ts. Delivering supply to the proposed LNG project Project. Th e company has submitted an application to the at Sarita Bay would require an additional independent Th e PTP Project is a proposed pipeline that will carry National Energy Board to import up to 1 Bcf/d of pipeline from the east coast of Vancouver Island to natural gas from Summit Lake, 55 kilometers north of natural gas through the existing pipeline systems Sarita Bay, designed, owned and operated by a separate Prince George, to the proposed Kitimat LNG facility on between Canada and the U.S., and export up to 1.4 Canadian entity and subject to its own regulatory B.C.’s north coast. Bcf/d of natural gas, as LNG, from Goldboro, NS, to approval process. Th e agreement between PTP LP and FNLP provides international markets. Williams will design, construct and operate the project. up to $200 million in fi nancial benefi ts over the life Pieridae anticipates that, at its peak, the Goldboro LNG As an international pipeline, the project will be subject to of the PTP Project to the FNLP First Nations whose terminal will create up to 3,500 jobs during construction the approval of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission traditional territories are located along the proposed PTP and 200 full-time, permanent jobs during operations. in the U.S. and the National Energy Board in Canada. pipeline route. In addition, the agreement will also provide Pieridae will make their fi nal investment decision in 2015 substantial business and training opportunities for these and, if they decide to proceed, Goldboro LNG will be TRANSCANADA CORP. – (REV 12/15) First Nations. operational in 2020. TransCanada Corp. has received fi nal permits from the BC Th e following 15 First Nations are limited partners Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC), giving regulatory in FNLP: the Haisla Nation, Kitselas First Nation, Lax SPECTRA ENERGY CORP. – (5/14) approval for the construction and operation of the Prince Kw’alaams Band, Lheidli T’enneh First Nation, McLeod Spectra Energy Corp. announced the submission of an Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project (PRGT). Lake Indian Band, Metlakatla First Nation, Nadleh Environmental Assessment Certifi cate Application for its Th e BCOGC permits cover the entire 560-mile route Whut’en First Nation, Nak’azdli Band, Nee Tahi Buhn Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Project to the BC from just north of Hudson’s Hope, B.C. to Lelu Island, off Indian Band, Saik’uz First Nation, Skin Tyee First Nation, Environmental Assessment Offi ce. Th e application includes the coast of Port Edward, near Prince Rupert. As well, the PLANNEDProjects in development permits approve construction of three compressor stations B.C. along with $1.5 million invested in community Wintershall and partners are currently studying expanding and a meter station where the gas is to be delivered to the initiatives along the proposed route, and more is planned. the Cruz del Sur Gas Pipeline in order to do this. Pacifi c NorthWest (PNW) LNG facility. Th e PRGT project Coastal GasLink is proposing to construct and operate Th e operation would consist of building a new 80.78 mile - approximately 485 miles of land pipeline and 75 miles of a 416-mile natural gas pipeline from the Groundbirch area (130 km) pipeline that would connect the new terminal marine pipeline - will connect the natural gas production in near Dawson Creek, B.C. to the proposed LNG Canada with the existing transportation infrastructure. Argentina the Montney fi elds of northeastern B.C. with the proposed liquefi ed natural gas export facility near Kitimat, B.C. Th e currently exports natural gas to Uruguay through a 124.27- PNW LNG liquefaction facility on Lelu Island. project is a key component of TransCanada’s $46 billion mile (200-km) pipeline. Flow would be reversed in 2013, In order for PRGT to proceed with construction, capital growth plan, which includes more than $13 billion when the re-gasifi cation plant became operational. Th e PNW LNG must receive a positive decision from the in proposed natural gas pipeline projects which support new terminal would receive LNG. Wintershall has a 10% federal government under the Canadian Environmental the emerging liquefi ed natural gas industry on the British share of the pipeline, while BG Group has a 40% share. Assessment Act, 2012. Once approval is received, and Columbia Coast. Th e remaining shares are held by the Uruguayan national PNW LNG has confi rmed its decision to proceed with company Ancap and the Argentine PanAmerican Energy. the project, PRGT will begin site preparation for camp Mexico During the initial production phase, 10 million cubic meters locations and right-of-way clearing, with commencement per day (MMcm/d) would be processed, later increasing of pipeline construction activities shortly thereafter. PEMEX/GUATEMALA – (REV 7/15) volume to 15(MMcm/d). According to Reuters, Pemex and Guatemala have proposed (8/15) TransCanada Corp. announced that the National a 373-mile long gas pipeline that will run from Salina OIL - The Americas Energy Board (NEB) recently issued its decision to the Cruz, Mexico to Escuintla, Guatemala. It was reported that company to proceed with the King’s North Connection Pemex will be responsible for 261 miles and Guatemala will U.S. project as part of $500 million in pipeline and facility take on the remaining 112 miles of the line. Th e bidding AMERICAN MIDSTREAM PARTNERS LP – expansions within the Eastern Triangle portion of the round for the project will be launched in 2016. Canadian Mainline system. (7/15) Th e project was developed in collaboration with American Midstream Partners LP announced that American Enbridge Gas Distribution and Union Gas Limited in Caribbean/South & Midstream Bakken LLC is conducting a binding open an eff ort to ensure the most effi cient design, development Central America season for a proposed 50-mile Bakken crude oil gathering and construction of facilities for the area. Th e project will and transportation system in the core of McKenzie County, ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT – (8/11) connect a portion of new Enbridge Gas Distribution ND to transport up to 40,000 bpd of crude oil for delivery to pipeline facilities with TransCanada’s existing Canadian Th e Argentine Government recently closed competitive major intrastate and interstate pipeline systems beginning in Mainline system in Vaughan, Ontario. Th is cooperative bidding for engineering, procurement and construction for June 2015. As proposed, the Bakken System will have initial strategy will optimize the provision of natural gas pipeline three segments of the 2,574.96-mile Noreste Argentino transportation capacity up to approximately 15,000 bpd with service required in the Greater Toronto Area while gas pipeline (GNEA), which will bring gas from Bolivia the ability to expand up to approximately 40,000 bpd. continuing to provide homes, businesses, schools and to Argentina. Th e fi rst section will interconnect with the hospitals in Ontario and Eastern Canada with a safe and Juana-Azurduy Pipeline in the province of Salta and run to BAKKENLINK PIPELINE – (REV 3/15) reliable source of natural gas. the provincial boundary between the provinces of Salta and BakkenLink Pipeline has proposed the Dry Creek to Th e King’s North Connection project is part of the Formosa. Th e second section will run along the provincial Beaver Lodge project, which includes construction of 37 company’s $12 billion of small-to-medium sized projects boundary between Salta and Formosa to the town of Ibarreta, miles of 16-inch diameter welded steel crude oil pipeline that are expected to enter service by 2017. Beyond 2017, in the province of Formosa, while the third section will extending from the Dry Creek Terminal near Johnson’s the company continues to advance a number of growth run from Vera, to Arijón, both in Santa Fe Province. Th e Corner, north across Lake Sakakawea to the Beaver Lodge initiatives, including $34 billion of commercially secured Government has budgeted $US871.9 million for this contract. Receipt Facility near Tioga. Th e proposed crude oil pipeline projects. Expanding existing facilities allows the company would be designed with an initial capacity of 100,000 bpd BOLIVIA/URUGUAY/PARAGUAY – (REV to continuously explore new ways to help producers reach of oil. Th is project would transport Bakken crude oil from 9/11) their market. three receipt facilities, including one existing (Dry Creek Construction of the King’s North Connection project Th e Bolivian government has confi rmed plans to build Terminal) and two new proposed (Beaver Lodge and is expected to cost approximately $220 million and is a $3 billion natural gas pipeline to link Uruguay through Keene) crude oil receipt locations. Th e proposed pipeline anticipated to be in-service by third quarter 2016. Paraguay. Th e pipeline, known as Urupabol (Uruguay- would be buried and follow existing pipeline and utility Paraguay-Bolivia), has received investment interest from easements to the extent practicable. Currently, the project is (8/15) TransCanada announced its Coastal GasLink the World Bank, Andean Corporation of Foment and waiting on the Bureau of Land Management’s assessment. Pipeline project has signed project agreements with Inter-American Development Bank. Th e pipeline will run Wet’suwet’en First Nation, Skin Tyee Nation, Nee-Tahi- 504 miles from Tarija, Bolivia to Puerto Casado on the BELLE FOURCHE PIPELINE CO./BRIDGER Buhn Band, Yekooche First Nation, Doig River First coast of the Paraguay River. From there, the pipeline will PIPELINE LLC – (REV 2/15) Nation, and Halfway River First Nation, all of northern continue south to Ciudad del Este, where it will cross the Belle Fourche Pipeline Co. and Bridger Pipeline LLC B.C. Th ese agreements are a positive step for the project and international bridge shared with Brazil toward Río Grande announced that they intend to hold an open season in these First Nations, whose traditional and treaty territories do Sul state and onward to Uruguay. A commission has January 2015 to obtain volume commitments to support are located along the proposed Coastal GasLink natural gas begun drafting the agreement for the project. No timeline expansions of their common carrier pipeline systems in pipeline route. for construction has been set. order to substantially increase their capacity to transport “Th ese agreements reinforce the strong relationships In July 2011, a meeting was held in Bolivia for the crude petroleum from the Bakken region and the we have built with these First Nations communities, and Urupabol Technical Commission, where representatives Powder River Basin to Guernsey, WY. Th e Pipelines are demonstrate their willingness to participate in the many from all three countries attended. coordinating their planned expansions to coincide with benefi ts this project will bring to their people, both today A study to supplying natural gas to the energy markets the expansion of another pipeline, together off ering joint and well into the future,” said Rick Gateman, president, of Uruguay and Paraguay was carried out as a preliminary transportation service to Cushing, OK. Th e design of the Coastal GasLink Pipeline project. “Th is isn’t a choice step to obtaining fi nancing from the Andean Development expansion and the additional capacity volume available on between economics and culture, environment and a Corp. According to the results of the study, Bolivia could the Pipelines will be dependent on commitments received traditional way of life for First Nations communities. Th ese initially supply these markets with natural gas through the during the open season. Interested parties should contact agreements highlight how First Nations communities can Paraguay-Parana river route by shipping LNG from Bolivia Robert Stamp at 307.266.0345 or Robert.Stamp@Truecos.

enjoy the economic benefi ts of the project while continuing to Asuncion and Montevideo. com for additional information. to live their way of life.” Th e modern energy infrastructure project will provide WINTERSHALL/BG GROUP – (9/11) BOE PIPELINE LLC– (7/16) long-term economic benefi ts for B.C. and Canada. An A joint venture between the German company Wintershall Project: Bakken Oil Express II Pipeline estimated 32 percent of the $4.8 billion capital project and the British BG Group is planning on expanding the Type: Project involves construction of 16-inch will be spent locally in British Columbia, with economic capacity of the gas pipeline Cruz del Sur, which connects pipeline benefi ts including over 2,000 jobs during construction and Buenos Aires to Uruguay. Th e new re-gasifi cation plant Miles: 42 approximately $20 million in annual property tax payments. near Montevideo off ers the opportunity to ship gas in Location: Dunn County, ND and McKenzie County, To date, over $38 million has already been spent in Northern the opposite direction from Montevideo to Buenos Aires; ND

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Start Date: 2017 Enterprise now has approximately $7.5 billion of capital the project is expected to take about 20 months and pump Comments: Pipeline will carry 165,000 bpd of oil, growth projects under construction, several of which will station construction will take about another 20 months. while linking up with the existing 38-mile benefi t customers on the new Midland-to-Sealy pipeline. BOE Pipeline Specifi cally, the 36-inch diameter Rancho II pipeline, NORTHSTAR MIDSTREAM – (3/16) which extends 88 miles from Sealy, to the ECHO terminal, NST Express is a planned pipeline and storage facility to be BRIDGETEX PIPELINE CO. LLC – (2/16) will have over one million BPD of capacity for crude oil built and operated by NorthStar Midstream. Beginning at Magellan Midstream Partners LP and Plains All American and condensate from the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford the Alexander Hub, the new pipeline will transport crude Pipeline LP announced that BridgeTex Pipeline Co. LLC, Shale. approximately 23 miles to the NorthStar Transloading owned 50/50 by Magellan and Plains, has launched an open Bakken terminal in East Fairview, ND. season to assess customer interest in a new origin in Grimes HARVEST PIPELINE CO. – (4/16) NST Express will have access to several major pipeline County, TX for the BridgeTex pipeline to accept Eaglebine Harvest Pipeline Co. announced that one of its affi liates, interconnects at the Alexander Hub. Th ese interconnects crude oil and condensate shipments. Th e proposed new Arrowhead Off shore Pipeline LLC, launched a binding will allow NST Express to gather and aggregate volumes origin, to be located 100 miles northwest of Houston, is open season to solicit commitments for its Point Comfort faster and more effi ciently from within North Dakota’s expected to be operational in mid-2017. Pipeline project. Once complete, the project will permit McKenzie County and its adjacent counties. Construction Th e BridgeTex pipeline currently has a capacity of Arrowhead to off er transportation services of crude is slated for summer of 2016. 300,000 bpd to deliver Permian Basin crude oil from petroleum from Jackson County, TX to the Port of Calhoun Colorado City, TX to the Houston Gulf Coast area. If in Calhoun County, TX. NUSTAR ENERGY LP – (5/15) warranted by customer demand, BridgeTex will expand the NuStar Energy LP announced the start of its second capacity of the pipeline system by approximately 35,000 MAGELLAN MIDSTREAM PARTNERS LP – binding open season of its South Texas Crude Oil Pipeline bpd to provide transportation services from the new Grimes (2/16) System by its affi liate, NuStar Logistics LP. With the fi rst County origin to the Houston Gulf Coast area. Medallion Pipeline Co. LLC announced a binding open expansion of the South Texas Crude Oil Pipeline System season which solicits long-term commitments from nearing completion, Highway 99 in McMullen County, CADDO PIPELINE LLC – (8/15) shippers for fi rm transportation capacity on the third major TX has emerged as a desired new crude oil pipeline Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA) and Delek expansion of Medallion’s existing crude oil pipeline system. transportation origin. Current construction has resulted Logistics Partners LP announced that Caddo Pipeline Th e current project proposed by the open season will further in an additional 10,000 bpd available for a fi rm volume LLC is conducting an open season for committed capacity extend and expand the geographic scope of the existing commitment, after a 10 percent set-aside for walk-up on a proposed new crude oil pipeline from Longview, TX 320-mile system: shippers. Deliveries into the proposed Highway 99 origin to Shreveport, LA. Caddo Pipeline LLC is a 50/50 joint Th e Howard Lateral is a proposed 45,000 bpd would need to be under the 45º API gravity common grade. venture between PAA and Delek Logistics. Th e open season bi-directional crude oil pipeline which will extend Under the Second South Texas Expansion Project process provides an opportunity for potential shippers to from multiple origin points in Howard County, TX binding open season, new shippers may sign a Th roughput make long-term volume commitments for service from approximately 49 miles to the southeast to a new point and Defi ciency Agreement for fi rm committed Longview to Shreveport in exchange for a discounted rate. of interconnection on Medallion’s Wolfcamp Connector transportation rights on NuStar’s South Texas Crude Th e proposed pipeline would originate at the Plains mainline system in Glasscock County, TX. An integral part Oil Pipeline System at any of the four origin points, Longview, TX Terminal and provide an initial capacity of of the overall project is a proposed 30,000 bpd expansion of including the new Highway 99 origin point. Further, approximately 80,000 bpd of light sweet crude to refi neries Medallion’s existing Wolfcamp Connector mainline system existing fi rm committed shippers of the fi rst expansion of in the Shreveport, LA area and Delek Logistics’ pipeline which originates at the Garden City Station in Glasscock the South Texas Crude Oil Pipeline System may elect to system supplying Delek US Holdings’ El Dorado, AR County and extends approximately 60 miles north to the amend their existing T&D Agreement to add Highway refi nery. Colorado City hub in Scurry County, TX. 99 as an origin in fulfi llment of the contracted volume Th e Expansion Project is expected to commence full commitment. CRESTWOOD EQUITY – (7/16) commercial operations in the second quarter of 2016, Owner: Crestwood Equity although certain segments of the Expansion Project may OASIS MIDSTREAM SERVICES LLC – (5/16) Project: Delaware Takeaway Pipeline commence service on an interim basis on an earlier date. Oasis Petroleum Inc. announced that Oasis Midstream Type: Project includes the construction of pipeline Services LLC is commencing a binding open season for the Miles: 165 MINNESOTA PIPE LINE CO. LLC – (6/14) Johnson’s Corner Pipeline Project, a new crude oil pipeline Location: Reeves County, TX - Orla, TX Minnesota Pipe Line Co. LLC (MPL) announced plans to be constructed in McKenzie County, ND. Th e project is Start Date: 2018 for a 300-mile project that will use available capacity on its a 19-mile, 10-inch diameter pipeline connecting the Wild Completion: 2019 newest pipeline – Line 4 – to ensure the overall reliability of Basin fi eld development with Johnson’s Corner. Th e project its pipeline system. Th e MPL system is the primary pipeline has an anticipated operating capacity of 50,000 bpd. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS LP – system that supplies crude oil to Minnesota refi neries that (6/15) produce much of the transportation fuels used in Minnesota PILGRIM PIPELINE Enterprise Products Partners LP has executed long-term and throughout the Upper Midwest. HOLDINGS LLC – (REV 11/16) agreements that support development of a new 416-mile, Th e addition of six pump stations to MPL Line 4 and Project: Pilgrim Pipeline 24-inch diameter pipeline to transport crude oil and upgrades at existing stations will allow the pipeline to Type: Project includes the development of condensate from the company’s Midland, TX terminal to operate at its original design capacity of approximately a bi-directional pipeline along the its Sealy storage facility west of Houston. From Sealy, the 350,000 bpd of crude oil when needed to meet demand. Husdon River new pipeline would link to Enterprise’s ECHO terminal Currently, MPL Line 4 is confi gured to transport about Miles: 178 Location: Port of Albany, NY – Linden, NJ through an interconnect with the Rancho II pipeline, 165,000 bpd, about half of its designed capacity. Th e pump Comments: The pipeline is currently under review which is scheduled to be in service in July 2015. Th rough stations will be located in rural areas along the route in the ECHO, customers will have direct access to every refi nery counties of Hubbard, Wadena, Morrison, Meeker, McLeod PLATTE RIVER MIDSTREAM INC. – (2/16) in Houston, Texas City, Beaumont and Port Arthur, as well and Scott. No new pipeline will be installed and no new Platte River Midstream Inc. announced a binding open as Enterprise’s dock facilities. pipeline right-of-way will be acquired for the project. season for the Platte River Pipeline System, a new crude oil Th e new pipeline will have the capability to provide up to Th e project will give MPL the fl exibility to shift capacity gathering system being constructed in Weld County, CO. 540,000 bpd of take-away capacity for growing volumes of to its newest pipeline in the event of an outage on other Th e pipeline system will have a design capacity to crude oil, and condensate from the Permian Basin. Service segments of the pipeline system. In addition, the project will transport up to 157,000 bpd of crude oil from numerous is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2017. allow for MPL to conduct maintenance on other segments Th e hydrocarbons will be gathered by trucks and pipelines fi eld receipt points in the Denver-Julesburg Basin. Th e of the pipeline system as needed without disrupting crude pipeline system will transport crude oil to a central delivery into Enterprise’s Midland terminal and then delivered in supplies to the Minnesota refi neries. When MPL added up to four segregated batches to Sealy. Th e diff erent grades point near Lucerne, Weld County, CO (the Lucerne West Line 4 to its system in 2008, it was designed to allow for an Station), for further transportation in interstate commerce of hydrocarbons handled by the Midland-to-Sealy pipeline increase in future capacity. on the Grand Mesa Pipeline. include West Texas Sour, West Texas Intermediate, Light Th e project is an estimated $125 million investment West Texas Intermediate and condensate. Enterprise is in the and will bring increased property tax benefi ts to the RIMROCK MIDSTREAM LLC – (4/15) process of adding incremental storage capacity to support the counties where construction will occur. About 40-50 new NGL Energy Partners LP announced its decision to new pipeline and the existing West Texas Gathering System. construction jobs will be created. Th e permitting process for PLANNEDProjects in development increase the size of its 100% owned Grand Mesa Pipeline SPECTRA ENERGY – (11/14) pipeline from the Denver-Julesburg Basin to the Cushing, to a higher capacity 20 inch design. Th e decision to expand Spectra Energy and Spectra Energy Partners announced OK hub. Th is new pipeline would possibly have multiple was based on initial shipper commitments and additional a proposed expansion of their oil pipeline network, origin points in the DJ Basin and handle multiple grades volumes committed to Rimrock Midstream LLC’s 150- with service from Guernsey, WY to Patoka, IL. Th is of crude oil. WCPL announced a non-binding open season mile DJ Basin gathering system that is currently under announcement is in response to strong market demand to that will provide an opportunity for shippers to express development which will tie into Grand Mesa Pipeline at move light, sweet, U.S. domestic crude from multiple supply their interest in making a long-term commitment toward Lucerne, CO. Th e larger pipeline provides area producers a areas, including the Bakken, the Denver-Julesburg Basin further expansion of the WCPL system. Th is non-binding reliable and cost-eff ective takeaway option out of the basin and the Powder River Basin, to Patoka, where shippers will open season aff ords all prospective shippers an opportunity capable of transporting over 200,000 bpd. be able to access Midwest and Gulf Coast markets. Th e to quantify their interest in a new pipeline and to indicate a Th e Grand Mesa Pipeline system will include over expansion may enable future access to Eastern U.S. refi ners preference for origin point. 550 miles of new crude oil transportation pipeline, as Spectra Energy continues to explore opportunities to multiple truck injection bays, over one million barrels of serve those markets as well. ZYDECO PIPELINE CO. LLC – (12/15) operational storage, and at least two origination points Th e expansion, which will be in service in 2017 with an Zydeco Pipeline Co. LLC, jointly owned by Shell Pipeline located near Lucerne and Kersey (Riverside Station) in initial capacity of approximately 400,000 bpd, will provide Co. LP and Shell Midstream Partners LP, announced the Weld County, CO. Th e system is in active development unprecedented access for shippers to reach markets in start of a non-binding open season. Zydeco is seeking and is scheduled to commence service in the fourth eastern PADD 2 and the fl exibility to meet light crude indications of interest in fi rm capacity transportation service quarter 2016. Rimrock will construct and operate the refi nery demand on the Gulf Coast. Spectra Energy will on a proposed new pipeline from its Houma terminal to pipeline system. hold a binding open season in the fi rst quarter of 2015. St. James. Th e larger pipeline is anticipated to replace an existing Zydeco Houma – St. James line to accommodate SADDLE BUTTE PIPELINE LLC – TALLGRASS PONY EXPRESS PIPELINE LLC the demand in excess of the current capacity, which is (2/15) – (11/14) approximately 270,000 bpd with the existing 18-inch line. Saddle Butte Rockies Midstream LLC announced the Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline LLC is pursuing a Upon completion of the proposed pipeline, customers start of a binding open season for the Rockies South potential expansion of its crude oil pipeline system to would have more capacity available to transport crude Pipeline, a new interstate pipeline designed to transport transport growing production in areas around its existing directly between Houma and St. James. All fi rm capacity multiple grades of crude oil and condensate produced in the system receipt points. Th ese areas include the Denver- commitments on the new line would incur a small Denver-Julesburg Basin (DJ Basin) to points in Cushing, Julesburg Basin in northeast Colorado and the Niobrara premium to the equivalent spot rate. Pending regulatory OK. Over the past several months, Saddle Butte has been and Codell formations located in northeast Colorado and approval, construction is expected to be completed in actively negotiating commitments with potential shippers, southeast Wyoming. Pony Express is also pursuing the early 2018. including a major integrated oil and gas company. Saddle expansion from Guernsey, WY to receive additional Bakken Butte believes these potential commitments will provide Shale crude oil from its existing joint tariff partners and to the needed commercial support to proceed with the Rockies accommodate growing Powder River Basin production. Canada South Pipeline. Discussions with prospective shippers are in progress ENBRIDGE – (4/16) Rockies South Pipeline would extend approximately 600 concerning the terms of binding precedent agreements miles from various receipt points in Weld County, CO, and that, if executed, would result in such shippers becoming Th e oral portion of the National Energy Board’s (NEB) terminate in Cushing. Th e integrated oil and gas company committed shippers on the expansion project. If it is able hearings on Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 Replacement has made available its extensive network of storage assets to obtain such written commitments, Pony Express would Program began on Nov. 30, 2015 in Winnipeg. Th e NEB at Cushing. conduct a binding open season shortly thereafter (likely in received 16 notices of intent from Aboriginal intervenors to Th e project has a preliminary design capacity of up to November 2014) seeking shipper commitments to transport provide oral traditional evidence. 250,000 bpd. Saddle Butte will increase the project’s design crude oil to multiple potential delivery locations in and Th e $7.5-billion Line 3 Replacement Program (L3RP) capacity if suffi cient commitments are received in the open around Cushing, Oklahoma. If it is able to obtain suffi cient is the largest project in Enbridge history, and includes season. commitments, Pony Express would fi nalize its design of the replacing the existing pipe with modern pipe materials Subject to a successful open season and receipt of expansion project to recognize scalability benefi ts aff orded by utilizing modern construction methods -- resulting in necessary permits and approvals, Rockies South Pipeline is the existing system and the open season results. Construction restoration of one of Enbridge’s primary pipelines along its expected to become operational in the third quarter of 2016. and operation of the expansion would leverage off of the Mainline crude oil system. Under the L3RP, the majority of the existing Line 3 will SEABROOK LOGISTICS LLC – (8/15) footprint and synergies of Pony Express’s existing crude oil pipeline system, including its multiline rights of way. be fully replaced with new pipeline and associated facilities Magellan Midstream Partners LP and LBC Tank Terminals Th e proposed expansion, which would be expected to on either side of the Canada-U.S. international border. Th e LLC (LBC) announced that they have formed a 50/50 be operational in the second half of 2016, involves the total length of the pipeline replacement is 1,031 miles. limited liability company Seabrook Logistics LLC to own construction of new pipeline facilities to increase the current On the Canadian side of the border, Enbridge Pipelines and operate crude oil storage and pipeline infrastructure in Inc. has announced plans to undertake replacement program the Houston Gulf Coast area. capacity of the Pony Express crude oil pipeline system by up to 400,000 bpd. Beginning in mid-2015 and until the for most of its Line 3 pipeline running between Enbridge’s Th e assets to be constructed and owned by the JV existing Hardisty Terminal in east-central Alberta and include over 700,000 bbls of new crude oil storage and new facilities are placed into service, committed expansion shippers would have access to an estimated 100,000 bpd Gretna, Manitoba. Similarly, in the U.S., Enbridge Energy other distribution infrastructure located adjacent to LBC’s Partners LP will undertake a $2.6-billion replacement existing terminal in Seabrook, TX. In addition, the JV of interim increased capacity on the current Pony Express system in proportion to their volumetric commitment to program for its Line 3 pipeline running between Neche, will construct and own a new 18-inch diameter pipeline, ND, and Enbridge’s existing Superior Station and Terminal which will connect the new storage to an existing third the expansion. Th is short-term capacity increase is expected Facility in Superior, WI. party pipeline that will transport crude oil to a Houston- to be primarily achieved through the use of drag reducing Collectively, these programs are known as the Line 3 area refi nery. An agreement has also been executed to allow agent on the existing system. Replacement Program – an important undertaking that will the JV to utilize LBC’s dock suitable for industry standard TRANSCANADA CORP. – (3/15) address integrity requirements, improve the reliability and Aframax vessels with up to a 45-foot draft and two barge safety of Enbridge’s Mainline system, and restore pipeline docks, which will provide effi cient marine access with According to news sources, TransCanada has proposed the capability. Th e program’s target in-service date is the second fl exible loading and unloading services at the Seabrook 200-mile Upland Pipeline Project that will run from North half of 2017. facility. Dakota into Canada and plans to apply with the U.S. State Th e L3RP will replace the existing 34-inch-diameter Th e project is currently estimated to cost approximately Department. Th e pipeline will have an initial transportation pipeline with a 36-inch-diameter pipeline from Hardisty $95 million and is supported by a long-term storage and capacity of 300,000 bpd of crude and connect to a line transportation commitment with a major refi ner. Magellan in Saskatchewan. Subject to regulatory approvals, the to Gretna on the Canadian side, and from Neche, ND, to will be responsible for constructing, maintaining and pipeline has a completion date of 2018. Sources said that Superior on the U.S. side. Segments of Line 3 outside of operating the new pipeline, and LBC will be responsible for the company doesn’t plan on backing down from the fi ght Cromer, Manitoba, from the Canadian border to Neche, constructing, maintaining and operating the new storage for the Keystone XL Pipeline, which has been a political ND, and near the Minnesota-Wisconsin border to the tanks and other terminal assets. football for the past seven years. Superior terminal, are being replaced under separate Subject to the receipt of permits and regulatory approvals, segment replacement projects. the new storage facility and pipeline infrastructure are WHITE CLIFFS PIPELINE LLC – (10/14) Under the L3RP, all segments of the line between expected to be operational in the fi rst quarter of 2017. White Cliff s Pipeline LLC (WCLP) is considering a new Hardisty and Superior will be replaced with new pipe using the latest available high-strength steel and coating

20 Pipeline News November 2016 • www.pipeline-news.com PLANNEDProjects in development technology, while the existing segments will be removed the Québec City region and Saint John, New Brunswick, ITC PIPELINE– (7/16) from operation. greatly enhancing producer access to Eastern Canadian Type: Project involves the construction of two Enbridge announced that the project will be delayed. and international markets. The pipeline will terminate new 36-inch diameter injecting pipelines (7/14) Enbridge has proposed the Northern Gateway at Canaport in Saint John, New Brunswick where and two 16-inch diameter return lines Pipeline project to construct a 731-mile long twin TransCanada and Irving Oil have formed a joint venture to Miles: 4 pipeline running from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat, build, own and operate a new deepwater marine terminal. Location: Pasadena, TX British Columbia. Th e eastbound pipeline would import Start Date: 2016 hydrocarbon natural gas condensate and the westbound PRODUCTS - Completion: 2016 pipeline would export bitumen from the Athabasca oil The Americas Comments: Pipeline will interconnect with Colonial sands diluted with the condensate to the new marine Pipeline Co. and Explorer Pipeline Co. terminal in Kitimat where it would be transported to Asian U.S. markets by oil tankers. Th e project would also include KINDER MORGAN INC. – (REV 7/15) terminal facilities with “integrated marine infrastructure DOS ÁGUILAS PIPELINE LLC – (7/16) Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP announced the launch at tidewater to accommodate loading and unloading of oil Project: Dos Águilas project of a binding open season to solicit commitments for the and condensate tankers, and marine transportation of oil Type: Project is an open access system of previously announced Utica To Ontario Pipeline Access and condensate.” Th e project has been postponed several refi ned products terminals and pipelines (UTOPIA) project, which will provide opportunities to times. Th e project received approval from the Canadian Location: Corpus Christi, TX - northern Mexico transport ethane and ethane-propane mixtures from the government in July 2014. Start Date: 2017 prolifi c Utica Shale area. Completion: 2018 Under the UTOPIA project, Kinder Morgan Cochin KINDER MORGAN ENERGY PARTNERS – Comments: Project finished a successful open will develop, construct, own and operate a 240-mile, 12- (REV 6/16) season and is moving forward. The inch diameter pipeline from Harrison County, OH, to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP fi led an application project includes the Border Express Kinder Morgan’s Cochin Pipeline near Riga, MI, where the with Canadian regulators on Monday to build the facilities Pipeline, Borrego Pipeline, Poliducto company would then move product eastward to Windsor, necessary to expand its Trans Mountain crude oil pipeline Frontera Pipeline and Poliducto del Ontario, Canada. UTOPIA would transport previously to 890,000 bpd. Norte Pipeline refi ned or fractionated natural gas liquids (NGLs), Th e facilities application to the National Energy Board including ethane and propane, with an initial 50,000 bpd of capacity, which is expandable to more than 75,000 bpd. (NEB) is a formal regulatory document and the crucial next ENTERPRISE PIPELINE – (7/16) step in Kinder Morgan’s bid to nearly treble the capacity Owner: Enterprise Pipeline of its 300,000 bpd line that runs from Edmonton, Alberta, MAGELLAN MIDSTREAM PARTNERS LP – Project: North Defan Pipeline (9/16) to the coast of British Columbia. Kinder Morgan fi led Type: Project includes the construction of Type: Project includes the construction of a preliminary plans with the NEB earlier this year. 24-inch or 30-inch pipeline lateral new high-capacity marine terminal and Th e NEB will now establish a hearing schedule to review Miles: 33 36-inch pipeline the application, and the project will undergo a public Location: Port Lavaca, TX Location: Pasadena, T regulatory review. If it is approved, Kinder Morgan expects Completion: 2017 the expanded pipeline to be operational in late 2017. Supt: Lou McMullen Th irteen customers have signed up as shippers on the ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS – Completion: 2019 expanded line, bringing the total committed capacity to (8/15) Comments: Project will handle refi ned petroleum products, including various grades of 708,000 bpd. Enterprise Products Partners LP announced a series Th e expansion project on the 715-mile long pipeline is gasoline and diesel fuel, and renewable of projects to convert and expand segments of its fuels expected to cost $5.10 billion. It is the only pipeline currently petrochemicals pipeline network designed to increase running from Alberta’s oil sands to Canada’s Pacifi c coast throughput capacity for polymer grade propylene and and has received strong support from producers keen to enhance system fl exibility and reliability. Mexico export their crude to Asia and other international markets. North Dean pipeline conversion and expansion – Th e MONTERRA ENERGY – (5/16) As of June 2016, the project has received conditional 149-mile pipeline will be converted from refi nery grade approval from FERC and is moving forward. propylene (RGP) service to PGP service. Th e conversion Monterra Energy announced its plan to build a refi ned is scheduled for completion in January 2017. Originating products pipeline to improve effi ciency and competition TRANSCANADA CORP. – (8/15) at Enterprise’s Mont Belvieu, TX complex, the converted in Central Mexico. Th e pipeline will address critical TransCanada Corp. is moving forward with the 1.1 pipeline will serve petrochemical facilities as far south as infrastructure needs to transport imported refi ned products MMbpd Energy East Pipeline project based on binding, Seadrift, TX in Calhoun County. Construction of a 33-mile from the port of Tuxpan, Veracruz, into Central Mexico long-term contracts received from producers and refiners. lateral pipeline, new metering stations and additional near Tula, Hidalgo. Th is private pipeline investment The conclusion of the successful open season confirmed pumping capacity will accommodate the additional will be made possible by the Mexican energy reforms. strong market support for a pipeline with approximately volumes and increase total PGP delivery capacity to more Mexican consumers will benefi t from a more effi cient and 900,000 bpd of firm, long-term contracts to transport crude than 150,000 bpd. competitive market with both domestic and imported fuels. oil from Western Canada to Eastern Canadian refineries Lou-Tex propylene pipeline conversion – Th e 263- Th e pipeline will be 18 inches in diameter with a capacity of and export terminals. mile, bi-directional pipeline, which currently transports up to 165,000 bpd. Monterra has access to an existing right- Interest in Energy East supports refineries’ desire to chemical grade propylene (CGP) between Sorrento, LA of-way that will expedite development and construction have access to a stable and reliable supply of Western and Mont Belvieu, TX will be converted to PGP service. and allow an early commercial operation date. Canadian crude oil - pushing out more expensive crude oil Th e conversion is scheduled for completion in 2020. Monterra will anchor the project with two industry from foreign regimes. Eastern Canada currently imports RGP pipeline and rail terminal expansion – Construction leaders - Mexican gas station consortium G500 as well as approximately 700,000 bpd. It also confirms the desire of a new 65-mile, 10-inch diameter pipeline, which will a leading global commodities merchant, which together producers have to support safe and innovative ways to get transport RGP between Sorrento and Breaux Bridge, LA, will account for a signifi cant portion of the project’s initial their crude oil to market. is scheduled for completion in early 2017. Rail receipt throughput volume of 100,000 bpd. Monterra launched an The project is expected to cost approximately $12 billion, facilities at Mont Belvieu, TX are also being expanded to open season in March 2016 for the remaining capacity. excluding the transfer value of Canadian Mainline natural give Enterprise the capability to unload up to 100 RGP gas assets. The Energy East Pipeline is anticipated to be in rail cars per day. service by late-2017 for deliveries in Québec and 2018 for Enterprise’s PGP infrastructure at Mont Belvieu currently deliveries to New Brunswick. consists of six propane/propylene fractionators. Following The Energy East Pipeline project involves converting completion of the new PDH plant, which is scheduled a portion of natural gas pipeline capacity in 1,864 miles for September of 2016, Enterprise will have the capability of TransCanada’s existing Canadian Mainline to crude oil to produce 8 billion pounds of PGP at its Mont Belvieu service and constructing 870 miles of new pipeline. The complex. In addition, a portion of Enterprise’s salt dome pipeline will transport crude oil from receipt points in storage capacity in Mont Belvieu is dedicated to PGP service. Alberta and Saskatchewan to delivery points in Montréal,

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