Columbia Gas Opens East Side Pipeline for Business, Continues Work on $1.6 Billion in Projects

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Columbia Gas Transmission LLC (Houston, Texas), a subsidiary of Columbia Pipeline Group Incorporated and Columbia Pipeline Partners LP, recently placed into service the East Side Expansion pipeline project in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Industrial Info is tracking $1.61 billion in active projects across the U.S. involving Columbia Gas Transmission.

The East Side project involves the construction of two pipeline segments, each 9.5 miles long and designed to transport up to 312 million standard cubic feet per day of natural gas. A 26-inch-diameter segment runs from Upper Uwchlan, Pennsylvania, to a compressor station in West Bradford, Pennsylvania, while a 20-inch-diameter segment runs from Gloucester County, New Jersey, to a receipt point in Newark, New Jersey.

Columbia also performed modifications and upgrades at two compressor station facilities in Pennsylvania: the Easton Compressor Station in Northampton County, and the Milford Compressor Station in Pike County. The Easton project involved adding two turbine-driven compressor gas packages, each with a capacity of 10,802 horsepower, to accommodate bi-directional flow capabilities and additional gas flow; the Milford project added two similar turbines, each with 4,700 horsepower.

Gulf Interstate Engineering Company (Houston) performed engineering services on both pipeline segments, and performed design-engineering services on both compressor-station projects. Price Gregory International (Houston) worked as general contractor on the Pennsylvania segment, and Associated Pipe Line Contractors Incorporated (Houston) worked as general contractor on the New Jersey segment.

Among the $1.61 billion in active Columbia projects tracked by Industrial Info, the 10 highest-valued are:

• $250 Million: Segment of Mountaineer XPress Pipeline in West Virginia
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.
• $110 Million: Segment of Leach Xpress Pipeline Loop in Ohio
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.
• $75 Million: Segment of Leach XPress Pipeline in West Virginia
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.
• $75 Million: Segment of Leach XPress Pipeline in Pennsylvania
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.
• $55 Million: Segment of Mountaineer XPress Pipeline in West Virginia
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.
• $55 Million: Segment of Mountaineer XPress Pipeline in West Virginia
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.
• $55 Million: Segment of Mountaineer XPress Pipeline in West Virginia
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.
• $50 Million: Columbia Pipeline Modernization Program in Pennsylvania
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.
• $50 Million: Replacement of Mountaineer XPress Pipeline Segment in West Virginia
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.
• $47 Million: Segment of Cameron Access Pipeline Loop in Louisiana
  For details on this construction project, see Industrial Info's project report.

"East Side is an important piece of our project backlog which is designed to meet the needs of both producers and end-use markets over the next several years," said Glen Kettering, the president of Columbia Pipeline Group Incorporated, in a recent press release. "Placing it in service today is a testament to our team's focus on executing [Columbia's] exciting growth plan on time and on budget."

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