In Enterprise, Quicksilver, Transcanada Lands Partners For Its Pathfinder Project

摘要

Enterprise Products Partners and Quicksilver Gas Services have agreed to partner with TransCanada in financing and utilizing its proposed Pathfinder Pipeline, a 1.2 Bcf/d project that would carry gas from the Rocky Mountains to Midwest and East markets across a northern route.rnUnder terms of a memorandum of understanding, Enterprise will buy 40% and Quicksilver will buy 10% of the proposed 915-mile Pathfinder project. The companies also committed to ship a total of 500,000 Mcf/d for 10 years.rnTransCanada said it will retain 50% ownership interest, as well as continue with developing, constructing and operating the pipeline, which was announced last month (IF, 14 April, 9).rnThe first phase would extend from Meeker, Colorado, through Wamsutter, Wyoming, to the Northern Border Pipeline by late 2010. The second phase, online a year later, would extend the line to Emerson, Manitoba, interconnecting with Great Lakes Gas Transmission and TransCanada's