Williams Partners L.P. WPZ announced today that its Transco pipeline
has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
to provide another natural gas delivery point from its Transco pipeline to New
York City.
The Rockaway Delivery Lateral Project is designed to provide approximately
647,000 dekatherms per day of natural gas delivery capacity to National Grid's
gas distribution system in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, providing National
Grid with both supply flexibility and increased capacity to meet future
incremental demand growth. The project is proposed to be placed into service
during the second half of 2014.
The proposed 3.2-mile 26-inch lateral would consist of approximately 2.9 miles
of offshore pipeline and approximately 0.3 miles of onshore pipeline. The
preferred route avoids residential, commercial and sensitive environmental
areas. The sea to shore portion of the pipeline (approximately one mile) would
be constructed using subsurface directional drilling technology, allowing
Williams to avoid all impacts to the beach and near-shore areas, as well as
onshore portions of Jacob Riis Park.
If approved by FERC, construction could begin in late 2013. The capital cost
of the project is estimated to be $182 million.
The Transco pipeline is a 10,200-mile pipeline system which transports natural
gas to markets throughout the northeastern and southeastern United States. The
current system capacity is approximately 9.7 million dekatherms per day.
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