The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has allowed Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. to begin service on the remaining facilities of the Southwest Louisiana Supply natural gas transportation project for customers of the Cameron LNG export terminal.
Commission staff granted permission on March 9 to Tennessee Gas, a Kinder Morgan Inc. subsidiary, to place the facilities in service. The authorization covered bidirectional facilities, a compressor station in Franklin Parish and a modified compressor station in Rapides Parish in Louisiana. Tennessee Gas had initially estimated that the roughly $170.5 million project would be ready for service around February.
The entire project will deliver an additional 295,000 Dth/d of firm transportation service to shippers that are also customers of Cameron LNG LLC's export facility, Mitsubishi Corp. and MMGS Inc. The Tennessee Gas expansion helps to increase transportation capacity to the export terminal by up to 900,000 Dth/d, with the additional gas moving through existing capacity on Tennessee Gas' 800 Line and the upgraded compressor stations.
FERC issued a certificate order for the project on Dec. 15, 2016. On Nov. 14, 2017, FERC authorized Tennessee Gas to begin partial service, which covered two laterals and five meter stations in Madison, Richland and Franklin parishes in Louisiana. (FERC docket CP16-12)
