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Williams Partners L.P.
and its wholly owned subsidiary
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC (Transco) today announced a fully
contracted expansion project designed to deliver 180,000 dekatherms a day of
additional natural gas capacity for local distribution along the Eastern
Seaboard.
The Garden State Expansion Project consists of additional compression to
provide 180,000 dekatherms of firm natural gas transportation service and
increased reliability to a local gas distribution company along the New Jersey
coast that was affected by Hurricane Sandy. The $150 million project would
provide firm transportation from Transco's Zone 6 Station 210 Pooling Point in
Somerset County, N.J. to a new interconnection on Transco's Trenton Woodbury
Lateral in Burlington County, N.J. Williams Partners plans to place the
project into service in phases with the first phase in 2016 and the second in
2017, assuming timely receipt of necessary regulatory approvals.
The project is in addition to the $4.3 billion in capital expenditures planned
through 2017 on Transco growth projects that Williams Partners has previously
announced. Transco is the nation's largest and fastest-growing interstate
natural gas transmission pipeline system. It delivers natural gas to customers
through its 10,200-mile pipeline network whose mainline extends nearly 1,800
miles between South Texas and New York City. The system is a major provider of
cost-effective natural gas services that reach U.S. markets in 12 Southeast
and Atlantic Seaboard states, including major metropolitan areas in New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
“As demonstrated by this continued high-level of demand from customers,
Williams Partners is well positioned to serve the growing
electricity-generation and gas distribution needs of markets up and down the
eastern United States,” said Frank Ferazzi, vice president and general manager
of Williams Partners' Transco system. “Garden State is another example of
vital infrastructure expansions we're pursuing as a result of the tremendous
market demand we're seeing from customers for abundant, clean-burning natural
gas.”
The Rockaway Lateral and Northeast Connector expansions are among Williams
Partners projects currently under construction. These two projects are
designed to increase natural gas delivery capacity to Brooklyn and Queens this
winter. To the south, demand for gas-fired electric power generation is the
primary driver of two more Transco projects under construction – Virginia
Southside and Mobile Bay South III – both designed to provide additional firm
natural gas transportation capacity to growing markets by 2015.
Williams Partners also has a number of projects progressing through the
regulatory process. In June, Transco filed a certificate application with the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seeking authorization to extend
the existing Transco pipeline in order to fuel a new electric power generating
facility in Cecil County, Md. The project is expected to be placed into
service by third-quarter 2016.
Also in June, FERC announced a schedule showing that it expects to issue in
August the environmental assessment for the Leidy Southeast Expansion project.
The project is designed to increase Transco pipeline's capacity by 525,000
dekatherms of natural gas per day to serve the growing market needs along the
Atlantic Seaboard by late 2015.
In February, FERC issued its draft Environment Impact Statement for the
Constitution Pipeline and the company expects FERC to issue the final
Environmental Impact Statement soon. Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC is
owned by subsidiaries of Williams Partners L.P., Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation,
Piedmont Natural Gas Company, Inc. and WGL Holdings, Inc. The 124-mile
pipeline project is proposed to connect domestic natural gas production in
northeastern Pennsylvania with northeastern markets by late 2015 or 2016.
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