Williams Northeast Supply Project
During the past 50 years, Williams' Transco pipeline has been quietly, safely and reliably delivering natural gas to its customers through its 10,500-mile pipeline system, extending from Texas to New York. The
Transco pipeline is a major transporter of
natural gas in the northeast United States, delivering much of the natural gas consumed in this region.
Williams is in the preliminary stages of developing an expansion of its existing Transco pipeline to provide growing East Coast markets with unprecedented access to abundant domestic natural gas supplies. The Northeast Supply Project would connect growing domestically-produced natural gas supplies originating from the Rockies, Appalachia and the emerging Marcellus shale supply regions to major markets in the Northeast.
Northeast Supply transportation service will be made available by an expansion of Transco’s existing system and the construction of a new lateral, the Rockaway Delivery Lateral. The system expansion, Northeast Connector, will access additional supply beginning at Station 195 in southeastern Pennsylvania and create capacity to deliver this supply to Transco’s Rockaway Delivery Lateral. The Rockaway Delivery Lateral will extend approximately three miles from Transco’s Lower New York Bay Lateral to a new delivery point with National Grid’s distribution system in New York.
Shippers for the Northeast Connector and the Rockaway Delivery Lateral have executed precedent agreements for 100,000 and 647,000 dekatherms per day of firm transportation capacity, respectively.
Before we can modify any facilities, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requires interstate pipeline operators like Williams to obtain a federal Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, in addition to various state and local permits. Williams anticipates that the project will be available beginning late 2012, subject to FERC approval.
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