Williams Partners Files With FERC for Northeast Gas Pipeline

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Williams Partners (NYSE:WPZ) (Tulsa, Oklahoma) announced on Monday that it has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the approval of its Northeast Supply Enhancement project, which is intended to increase natural gas delivery to New York City and the surrounding area on its existing Transco pipeline system. The project is intended to deliver gas to the area by the 2019-2020 winter heating season.

The project would create 400,000 dekatherms per day of gas transmission from Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale to New York. The project has an estimated total investment of more than $926 million and a target in-service date of December 1, 2019.

Williams faces challenges with the proposed project, as FERC still maintains no quorum (requiring three out of five commissioners) to approve the project. With FERC commissioner Norman Bay's resignation in February of this year, the commission has been without a quorum to approve, among other things, interstate pipeline projects. For more information, see March 6, 2017, article - New Hurdle for Interstate Energy Projects: A Quorum-less FERC.

One of FERC's last approvals before the quorum ended was for Williams' Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline, which will provide the transmission of Pennsylvania natural gas to markets in the U.S. Southeast and the Gulf Coast. Approval of the pipeline is currently being challenged in courts following FERC's February 3 approval. For more information, see February 7, 2017, article - Natural Gas Pipeline Projects Gain Last-Minute Approvals by FERC.

Industrial Info is tracking 120 pipeline projects with a combined total investment value of $6.2 billion that are planned for the U.S. Northeast market region, which includes the states of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware. Many of these projects are designed to deliver the abundant natural gas from the Marcellus Shale to other markets in the U.S.

Among the largest of these projects is Sunoco Logistics Partners LP's (NYSE:SXL) (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania) construction of the Mariner East Phase II natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline, which will carry NGL from Ohio to the company's Marcus Hook export facility in Pennsylvania. The project kicked off in summer 2016 and is expected to be completed this summer.

Also planned to kick off is the PennEast pipeline project, which will transport up to 1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania to New Jersey. The project is planned to kick off in the third quarter of this year and will take about a year to complete. The estimated total investment value of the project is $250 million.

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