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EQT unit gets construction approval for expansion tied to Mountain Valley pipe

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Equitrans LP's request to begin construction on the remaining portions of a natural gas pipeline expansion linked to the larger 2-Bcf/d Mountain Valley pipeline project.

FERC authorized the $172 million Equitrans expansion project in October 2017, along with the 300-mile Mountain Valley project led by Equitrans affiliate EQT Midstream Partners LP. The Equitrans project will carry up to 600,000 Dth/d of gas from the Appalachian Basin, moving it to other pipelines and on to local distribution companies, power generation facilities and industrial customers in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Southeast. The expansion will consist of seven miles of pipeline and a new compressor station in Pennsylvania, plus the abandonment of an existing compressor station.

FERC's approval allows the company to build the H-316 pipeline, along with the rest of the expansion project. FERC's initial approval in March for construction activities limited the work to the compressor station in Pennsylvania. Equitrans requested permission to build the additional facilities on May 31, after it received all environmental permits and landowner permissions. (FERC docket CP16-13)