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Supply line company to build Mass. injection spot on KMI's Tennessee Gas system

A company that sets up alternative natural gas supply lines in areas that lack adequate pipelines is working on a new injection spot on Kinder Morgan Inc.'s Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. to ease constraints on that system.

Xpress Natural Gas LLC trucks LNG and CNG to establish an alternative supply to pipes in areas that either lack lines or have constraints. The company's services include emergency deliveries and pipeline-to-pipeline deliveries. Seth Berry, chief administrative officer for Xpress, said the projects do not replace pipelines but, especially in the Tennessee Gas case, can form a "bridge."

Speaking at the LDC Gas Forum Northeast in Boston on June 12, Berry said his company will set up the injection location in eastern Massachusetts with a targeted in-service date in 2019. The project, which should be able to handle 20,000 Dth/d to 25,000 Dth/d, would insert the gas on the eastern side of a constrained area of the Tennessee Gas system.

After his presentation at the forum, Berry said the project's customers would be shippers on the Tennessee Gas system. He said that while the project is designed to provide more gas flow, it is not a replacement for Kinder Morgan's much larger 1.3-Bcf/d Northeast Energy Direct pipeline project for New England LDCs that has never been completed. Kinder Morgan scuttled Northeast Energy Direct in 2016 amid regulatory uncertainty that threatened the profitability of the proposed natural gas conduit.