Rockies Express Gets FERC Approval For East-to-West Capacity Expansion

摘要

Tallgrass Energy Partners LP said Monday that FERC has approved its Zone 3 East-to-West Project that would modify the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) to send an additional 1.2 Bcf/d of Appalachian natural gas to Midwest markets. REX is now waiting for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue a final Notice to Proceed, and the project is expected to be in service in the second half of the year. The pipeline’s Seneca Lateral, which delivers 600 MMcf/d from MarkWest Energy Partners LP’s Seneca gas processing plant in Noble County, OH, to the Rex mainline and westward through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois is already in service (see Shale Daily, June 18, 2014). Tallgrass, which operates and owns half the pipeline along with Sempra U.S. Gas & Power (25%) and Phillips 66 (25%,) said Monday that the lateral has reached full capacity.