Marcellus Gas Hitches a Ride to Florida Power Plant

In April MDN provided an update on the Sabal Trail Transmission pipeline project (see Marcellus/Utica Gas Soon Heading to Florida Penninsula via Sabal Trail). Spectra Energy (and partners NextEra Energy and Duke Energy) are building Sabal Trail, a $3.2 billion, 515-mile interstate natural gas pipeline in Florida, Georgia and Alabama to deliver Marcellus gas to the southeast. The project has been underway for the past three+ years. Sabal Trail will connect to Williams’ Hillabee Expansion Project, which is a new pipeline spur built off the huge Transco pipeline system (see Williams Building Alabama Pipeline with Marcellus Connection). Williams is reversing a portion of the Transco to bring Marcellus gas south, much of it to feed natgas-fired electric plants. Last week the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authorized a partial startup of the Sabal Trail project and the Hillabee Expansion that will feed it (see Sabal Trail Pipeline Begins Service Connecting M-U Gas to Florida). The new news is that it's now flowing, and the first gas coming from the new pipeline system is now servicing Florida Power & Light Co.’s Riviera Beach power plant, with other plants getting our yummy Marcellus gas in the next few days...

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