New Pipeline Designed to Connect M-U Gas to Gulf Coast LNG Exports
An exciting new pipeline project to tell you about. Two days ago Enable Midstream Partners announced a plan to build an interstate natural gas transportation project called the Gulf Run Pipeline. The pipeline itself is 165 miles of large-diameter pipeline to be constructed from northern Louisiana to Gulf Coast markets. The pipeline will connect to other pipelines, and that's how Marcellus/Utica gas will reach it and go on to the Gulf Coast. In fact, the plan is to connect to multiple pipelines that in turn connect to not only the Marcellus/Utica, but also to the Haynesville, Barnett, and the Mid-Continent shale region too. The Gulf Run Pipeline project is backed by an agreement with an undisclosed "cornerstone shipper" that has signed up for 20 years, committing to use 1.1 billion cubic feet per day of capacity along the pipeline--to deliver the gas to an LNG export plant. If the LNG plant doesn't get built the deal is off and the pipeline won't get built. Still, Enable is confident enough in the project that they are running a non-binding open season from now until Oct. 26...
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