Williams, Boardwalk Launch Bluegrass Pipeline Open Season

摘要

Bluegrass Pipeline LLC, a joint venture between Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP, begins a binding open season on October 29 to determine industry commitments to natural gas liquids (NGLs) transportation capacity from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays to the petrochemical and export complex on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The first phase of the Bluegrass pipeline is being designed to provide customers with 200,000 barrels per day (b/d) of mixed NGLs takeaway capacity in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, according to an October 24 joint announcement. In the second phase of the project, capacity will be increased to 400,000 b/d to meet market demand – by adding additional liquids-pumping capacity in particular.